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00:00 G-77 and China's summit is underway in Havana, where leaders from the global south get together
00:15 on a historic occasion to discuss world-present issues and possible solutions.
00:20 In the United States, the workers won't strike on Friday for an indefinite period.
00:30 And the North Korean leader Jin Jong-un on Friday toured to ask for plans to spark the
00:35 Russia tour.
00:39 Hello, welcome to From the South.
00:43 I'm Anais Rosabal from the Television Studios in Havana, Cuba.
00:46 We begin with the news.
01:02 The summit of the Group of 77 on China convened by Cuba begins today in Havana, focusing on
01:07 current development challenges with the role of science, technology and innovation.
01:11 The leader of the Cuban revolution, Raúl Castro, is present at the opening date of
01:15 the G-77 and China summit being held at the Havana Convention Palace.
01:20 The meeting is attended by more than a hundred delegations from the member countries of the
01:24 bloc and officials from international organizations who will discuss political and economic issues
01:30 of relevance for developing nations.
01:32 The president of the Cuban Military Association, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the country that holds
01:35 the CEO and the contemporary presidency of this association, the Secretary General of
01:40 the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, opened the discussion in the island's capital.
01:49 In his opening speech at the summit of the Group of 77 on China, Cuban President Miguel
01:54 Díaz-Canel referred to issues such as climate change and its consequences, the democratization
01:59 of international relations among nations, and the poverty condition of the southern
02:04 people.
02:05 The peoples of the south are the ones that have more poverty, hunger, misery, death,
02:12 poor, curable diseases, illiteracy, human displacements, and other consequences of underdevelopment.
02:20 Many of our nations are called poor when in fact they should be called impoverished nations.
02:29 And we have to revert that condition in which we have been stuck as a result of colonial
02:38 centuries of dependence because the south can no longer cope with these unfortunate
02:45 issues.
02:46 Those who raise cities out of the blood and sweat of the nations of the south are suffering
02:53 already and they will suffer more in the future the consequence of economic imbalances that
02:59 were the result of plunder.
03:01 We are traveling on the same boat although some are VIP passengers and others are their
03:08 servants.
03:09 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel referred to the patterns imposed by developed countries
03:14 that are brainstorming the exercise on the south.
03:18 It's a tendency to patent everything, including life forms.
03:26 This is a practice that swells the coffers of large transnational corporations in the
03:30 most powerful economies and makes the remaining economies more fragile.
03:36 The rampant process of privatization of knowledge contributes to widening the gap and limits
03:40 access to development.
03:48 Patents are part of this.
03:50 There's pressure on developing countries to introduce laws to protect intellectual property
03:53 rights while conveniently forgetting that many international countries develop precisely
03:57 by pirating products and technology outside their geographic borders, particularly in
04:03 today's developing countries.
04:07 Patent applications continue to increase and even in the midst of the pandemic in 2020
04:13 up by 1.5% and jumped in 2021 3.6% growth.
04:19 And during his speech at the start of the G77 and China Summit, Secretary General Antonio
04:24 Guterres acknowledged the failure of global frameworks and systems to deal with the current
04:29 global crisis.
04:30 In the last decades, their countries have brought many people out of poverty and the
04:39 United Nations has been seeking global solutions and promoting solidarity.
04:46 But now we are facing a number of world crisis.
04:52 Poverty is increasing.
04:54 Hunger is greater.
04:58 Prices have soared and climatic disasters are increasingly more frequent.
05:07 The systems and the global frameworks have failed.
05:12 The conclusion is clear.
05:14 The world is failing the developing countries.
05:23 We go back to the summit in Havana where Gladys Casada is now ready to bring us the latest
05:28 updates of the G77 and China Summit, which has already kicked off.
05:32 Tell us, Gladys, what is the latest news?
05:35 Well, thanks, Adina, for this new report for you and for TeleSort English and from the
05:42 South.
05:43 As you saw this morning in this second half of the remarks and the speakers that are addressing
05:50 the summit and the gathering, well, we had the presence of the President of Comoros,
05:54 Azalea Zoumani, who is also the President of the African Union, one of the main blocs
06:00 in that continent.
06:01 In that occasion, in his remarks, the President of Comoros was really stressing regarding
06:07 the unity and the paramount necessity of a global gathering and the global South to come
06:13 together to face the global challenges of today.
06:18 He also was praising China's initiatives to make more viable the digital currencies and
06:24 the digital economy, given today's turn of the finance and the trade markets that are
06:30 weaponizing the dollar and that are using local currencies against their own peoples,
06:36 against the undeveloped countries, and also against those who do not pledge to the hegemonism
06:42 of the West.
06:43 Also, Ralph Gonsalves, the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was insisting
06:49 on the need of a strong unity among the global nations in the South and also the Caribbean
06:55 as a zone and as a stronghold to face the imperialism and to take a stand against hegemonism
07:02 and against the interference of the Western powers.
07:07 And also, Li Zhi, the representative of China, was stressing one idea that was really interesting
07:12 in this summit, is that China is one of the most developed countries in the world, if
07:17 not the second biggest economy, and also he was saying that China is always going to be
07:23 on the side of the underdeveloped countries, is always going to be a friend of the poor,
07:28 and is going to be always part of the global South.
07:32 It's a great idea that shows that an economic growth and economic prosperity is not just
07:38 the only way to achieve greatness, and also those who have sustainable development can
07:43 help those who are still in the race to get to that point.
07:48 Also China said it supports the next summit of the South to be held in January 2024 in
07:56 Kampala, Uganda, and said that Uganda deserves as an African country to be the summit or
08:02 to be, I beg your pardon, to be the main venue for this event.
08:07 Also one of the latest and most important remarks of this summit is that of the president
08:12 of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Morales.
08:14 Let's recall something very important regarding this address.
08:19 In this case Maduro is coming back from China as he had this almost a long week visit to
08:25 that Asian nation, to the Asian giant, and there he signed 31 cooperation agreements.
08:31 He found the new technology advances in China, and also he shared some arguments and some
08:38 guidelines of his economy regarding construction, regarding economy, finance, trade, education.
08:45 So President Nicolás Maduro Morales came to this summit with other perspective regarding
08:49 cooperation, North-South cooperation, and how the different regions of the world can
08:54 come together and rejoin and also find the cooperative and the comparative advantages
09:01 of each one of them to cooperate and make the world different.
09:06 Also one of the main topics is this, sustainable development, innovation, technology, but on
09:12 behalf of the peoples of the world, not only to weaponize technology, not only to weaponize
09:17 the currencies, but to find alternatives and also strategies to overcome today's Germany
09:24 and also to achieve that new world that we are all finding and we all want to find.
09:33 And what would be the central focus of the summit?
09:39 Well one of the main topics I have been hearing and you can find in all the remarks is not
09:45 only solidarity, is to find action in this solidarity, is to strategize, but also to
09:50 take that into action, put that into motion, all the will, because one of the main topics
09:56 that was referred in this, in Vincent Tendegreen, the Prime Minister, is not just to say, is
10:03 not just to find the words, it's only to do the talk and find the work, because as he
10:10 was saying, when there is a will, there is a way to find the solutions from the Global
10:15 South.
10:16 One of the main topics also is that the Global South has not only the potential to find its
10:21 own solutions, because the Global South is a decision-making block, also the Global South
10:26 has the potential to find the resources, to find the ways and to find the infrastructure
10:32 needed to overcome today's liabilities and today's problems in the economy and the geopolitics.
10:39 And also, as we know, this is a summit that is coming in a new context in the geopolitics.
10:45 It is coming after a reshaping of Africa, it's coming after a reshaping of the global
10:51 power balance, given the conflict in Ukraine, given the new energy trade and energy markets,
10:58 and the new composition of the financial trade and markets also, and the food chains changes
11:04 that are also reshaping the world.
11:07 So also, I think that those are the main topics of the summit, and also solidarity, cooperation,
11:14 and bolstering and enhancing all the ties between the Global South.
11:20 Thank you Gladys Ghezada for your information, reporting from the summit of the Group of
11:24 77 held in Havana.
11:29 Thanks to you, Adam, and from the South.
11:33 Let's take a short break, but remember you can join us on TikTok at Telesud English,
11:37 where you'll find news in different formats, new dates and more.
11:40 Other studies coming up, stay with us.
12:09 Welcome back.
12:10 Social organizations and left-wing parties marched against the promotion of ultra-liberal
12:14 Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Millet.
12:18 On Thursday afternoon, thousands of people marched in downtown Buenos Aires City against
12:23 the economy that judgment policies demanded by the International Monetary Fund and Millet's
12:27 speeches against public health and education systems.
12:31 The mobilization was held as part of the national debt struggle and had rebel guests in different
12:35 cities of the country.
12:37 And all the controversies the libertarian Javier Millet received, the highest number
12:41 of votes in primary elections and a speech promotes the elimination of central banking,
12:46 dollarization and the elimination of education and health care as universal rights guaranteed
12:51 by the state.
12:57 Brazil Federation of Petroleum Workers Union is made justice for the millions of jobs lost
13:02 as caused by the Operation Car Wash Antigua Rocha investigation, which was recently ruled
13:07 fraudulent by Brazil's Supreme Court.
13:10 In Pernambuco, Correspondent Brian Meyer has more details.
13:13 Let's watch.
13:16 After the Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of the now disgraced Operation
13:20 Car Wash investigation last week by annulling as fraudulent all evidence collected from
13:25 Odebrecht Construction Company, Brazil's National Federation of Petroleum Workers Union's,
13:30 Grupe, is demanding justice for all of the workers who lost their jobs.
13:36 I worked at Abreu Elima Refinery as a driver.
13:43 But in 2016, Operation Car Wash came and the construction of the second refinery unit was
13:52 halted and thousands of people were fired.
13:59 I have been working as an app driver ever since.
14:04 Before the 2016 coup, Brazil was on the verge of becoming self-sufficient in gasoline production.
14:10 Then President Michel Temer used Operation Car Wash as an excuse to privatize refineries
14:15 and halt construction of a second refinery in Abreu Elima.
14:19 Now Brazil is importing around 11 billion dollars a year in gasoline refined from its
14:23 own petroleum.
14:25 The entire petro-brass system was damaged by the Operation Car Wash.
14:31 One proven goal of Car Wash, which was sponsored primarily by the United States, was to dismantle
14:38 Brazil's oil refining capacity.
14:42 When Brazil became self-sufficient in petroleum in 2008, they began to worry that Brazil would
14:48 become a major oil producing power.
14:50 The end result of the economic sabotage waged against Brazil's national development plan
14:55 by the Operation Car Wash task force's illegal collaboration with the U.S. Department of
15:00 Justice was millions of unemployed and over 20 million Brazilians falling below the poverty
15:05 line.
15:06 In 2021, the Institute for the Less has shown that Operation Car Wash resulted in 4.4 million
15:15 job losses in Brazil, mainly in the oil and gas sector and in the forced bankruptcy of
15:26 our largest civil construction companies.
15:31 This week, President Lula announced that Petrobras will finally finish building its second refinery
15:37 in Abreu Elima.
15:39 Brian Muir, Telus Sur, Suape, Pernambuco.
15:43 In the United States, auto workers went on strike indefinitely on Friday in the absence
15:48 of an agreement to sign an equality bargaining deal.
15:51 The strike was initiated by thousands of workers at the three assembly plants of General Motors,
15:57 Ford and Solantis, United and Union United Auto Workers.
16:01 It is the first time in history that factories of the so-called "V3" of Detroit and the
16:06 three companies are known to have gone on strike simultaneously.
16:10 Union President Von Fahen announced at 11 p.m. local time on Thursday that the first
16:15 to go on strike, as part of a selective strike, would be about 30,500 workers at assembly
16:21 plants in Westville, Toledo and Michigan, who are rallying at the company's gates.
16:28 "Negotiators, maximum leverage and flexibility in bargaining.
16:35 And if we need to go all out, we will.
16:39 Everything is on the table.
16:41 You are ready to join the stand-up strike at a moment's notice."
16:46 We continue, the United States said Hunter Biden, the President's son, was indicted
16:50 on Thursday on three charges related to the purchase and possession of weapons, which
16:55 is illegal when dealing with a weapon without an addition.
16:59 According to the indictment, in 2018, Hunter Biden purchased a handgun and lied to the
17:04 seller by giving him a certificate stating that it was not a licensed user, addicted
17:09 to narcotics, stimulants or other controlled substances.
17:13 He is also charged with the third crime of possessing a firearm knowing that it was illegal
17:17 because of its additions.
17:19 The Justice Department stated in a release that, if convicted on all three charges, President
17:24 Joe Biden's son could receive a maximum of 25 years in prison.
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18:53 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday toured two AFRA plants in eastern Russia.
18:58 Accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Russian Industry and Trade Denis
19:03 Manturov, Kim visited an industrial plant of the consul's Moskva-Amur Aviation Plant,
19:09 where the assembly of Su-35 and Su-57 fighter jets is being carried out.
19:15 The North Korean leader was also able to see the industrial facilities of another airspace
19:20 company, Yagulev, where some parts of the fuselage and wing components of SJ-100 commercial
19:26 aircraft are manufactured.
19:29 This is Kim's second visit to Russia during the first in April 2019.
19:33 He merely visited the city of Vladivostok and met with the Russian president on the
19:37 campus of the Far Eastern Federal University.
19:43 The main border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Turkhan Crossing, reopened
19:48 on Friday after nine days of closure due to a series of clashes between security forces
19:53 of both countries.
19:55 Pakistani authorities reported that the crossing was reopened at 8 a.m. for pedestrians and
20:01 at 9 a.m. for commercial transport.
20:03 According to Pakistan's version, the key crossing was closed on September 6 last because
20:08 Pakistan agents complained about the construction of a checkpoint on the Afghan side, and the
20:14 Taliban government security forces responded with gunfire.
20:18 The Turkhan border crossing, which accounts for 65% of the traffic between the two countries,
20:24 has been closed several times in the past, causing severe hardship to travelers and loss
20:29 of business associated with the movement of goods.
20:36 The delegation of the Houthi government negotiator left Chement on Thursday to restart peace
20:41 talks in Saudi Arabia.
20:43 The plane carrying the Houthi negotiators and the Omani mediators took off from Sahana
20:48 International Airport on Thursday afternoon.
20:50 Earlier, the head of the Houthi political council, Mahadi al-Mashat, said they were
20:55 on their way to write a response to Omani mediation.
21:00 Negotiations seem to resume at first between the Saudi Arabian-backed Yemeni government
21:04 and the Houthis of the Ansarullah movement.
21:07 Yemen has been mirrored in civil war since late 2014, when the Houthi group seized control
21:12 of several northern provinces and forced the Yemeni government to abandon the capital,
21:16 Sahanaha.
21:35 The Libyan city of Durma has buried thousands of people in mass graves as search teams scour
21:39 ruins left by the Basseerian floods.
21:42 The floods that have wound entire families and sown the Lebanese's post-mortality in
21:45 the old-rich country, health officials have confirmed 11,000 deaths and say 9,000 people
21:50 are still missing.
21:51 An unofficial set on Thursday that most casualties could have been avoided if there had been
21:55 a normal operating methodological service that could have issued timely warnings.
21:59 We go live with the summit of the G7 and China.
22:14 We are going to listen to Mia Monk, the Prime Minister of the Beirut.
22:19 60 years of a callous and brutal blockade crippling the economy of this nation, but
22:27 exacerbated by unacceptable and unjustified declaration by the last presidency of the
22:34 United States of America of this country as a sponsor of state terrorism.
22:40 I speak with clarity on this matter because in 1976, an act of terrorism was perpetrated
22:48 against Cubana Flight 455 that led to 73 people dying as the plane took off from my country,
22:57 Chavez.
22:59 No one has ever been held accountable in spite of the mountain of evidence available.
23:05 And each year, we commemorate the sacrifice of these people, the Cubans, the Guyanese
23:12 and the Koreans who lost their lives as victims of the worst aspects of geopolitics.
23:19 I was only 10 years old when this incident happened, but I will never forget it as you
23:26 would appreciate, nor the moment when President Fidel Castro came to Barbados to unveil the
23:38 monument with us.
23:42 It reinforced the reality of the world in which we live, in which the mighty and the
23:48 powerful have acted as they wish on accountability.
23:53 Ironically, we understand the importance of teaching our children how to be fair, and
23:58 we tell them that each and every day, but we forget it when it comes to the actions
24:03 of adults and countries.
24:05 I have come today with a simple message, that the hour is now and the future is ours to
24:12 grasp together.
24:13 It's therefore not surprising that almost eight years after the establishment of the
24:20 United Nations, the majority of the world's population are awakening to the reality that
24:26 our future cannot remain within the shadows of an order that the multilateral institutions
24:32 of the last century promised us would be a feature of our past and not the bane of our
24:39 modern existence.
24:40 Regrettably, what we have seen with the advance of years is a consolidation of an order that
24:47 the multilateral institutions of the last century promised us would be a feature of
24:52 our past and not the bane of our modern existence.
24:57 Regrettably, what we have seen with the advance of years is a consolidation of power and wealth
25:04 in the hands of an absolute few, and that concentration is likely to be continued as
25:11 a result of the privatization of knowledge, research, science and technology.
25:18 My friends, the lack of access to a level playing field is not only found in matters
25:22 of high science and technology, but it is as basic as in the access of our students
25:28 to digital tools to help them participate in the world in which we live, particularly
25:33 as we were in the pandemic that restricted movement and access to tuition for many of
25:39 our children.
25:40 But it goes further for those in Africa who constitute part of the 600 million who do
25:47 not have access to electricity.
25:50 As unjust as that scenario is, it is further reflected in the absence of a just industrial
25:56 strategy for the global south.
25:58 It is reflected, as we've heard over and over this morning in the vaccine apartheid, in
26:04 spite of the clear moral imperative that exists for all of us as human beings to save as many
26:10 lives as possible, especially in times of global peril.
26:15 Those few people who lived in the developed world who could sleep easily at night were
26:19 among the minority of the world's population, confident in the knowledge that their governments
26:25 would provide to them access to life-saving therapeutics and vaccines.
26:31 It is perhaps most acutely seen as we fight the climate crisis, not climate change as
26:37 others continue to call it, but a climate crisis.
26:41 The people of Dominica and Pakistan and Libya more recently have now come to experience
26:47 this in real terms.
26:48 And as I mentioned, Libya, may I use this opportunity on behalf of my people and government
26:54 to express our sympathy and profound regret at the significant loss of life and damage
27:00 to property that the people of Libya and indeed the people of Morocco have experienced in
27:05 recent weeks, days.
27:09 There is no doubt, my friends, that the world in which we live is experiencing unprecedented
27:13 crises, multiple.
27:14 And it has done so at a time when mankind has attained more scientific, engineering,
27:20 and technological progress than at any other time in history.
27:26 The difficulty is that, like with all else, inventions can be used either for noble causes
27:33 or wicked purposes.
27:35 This means two things.
27:37 First, our awareness and alertness must be constant.
27:42 And secondly, it does matter, as we heard from my dear brother, Prime Minister Gonzales,
27:47 this morning, who owns and who controls the technology.
27:52 So why must we be alert now?
27:55 Because like many other temptations from time immemorial, our reliance on things that allow
28:01 us great convenience and happiness cause us to be easy prey.
28:06 Easy prey if we do not remember our purpose and our mission.
28:11 The rise of social media and AI threatens to destabilize at best and enslave at worst
28:19 billions of people with an ease of conquest that miniaturizes the achievements of the
28:25 Spanish Armada.
28:28 Why?
28:30 Does control and ownership matter as we go into the future?
28:34 We have seen that in times of scarcity, domestic interests and ethnic relationships have mattered
28:41 more than fairness and preserving the effectiveness of our multilateral institutions, whose very
28:47 existence are intended to preserve fairness on a level playing field.
28:53 And how will we use the science and technology to protect the planet?
28:57 If that science and technology is only within the province of the wealthy North, how will
29:02 we avert the loss of life in the South, the inevitable climate migration and the consequential
29:10 economic and social implosion that if persists without course correction, will threaten the
29:16 very viability of our countries, but perhaps worse, the very existence of the only planet
29:22 we know that can sustain life.
29:26 I repeat, commitments made to protect our planet will be empty promises if we do not
29:32 have the capacity to implement.
29:35 Lack of access to technology and critical plan have reinforced for us as nation states
29:41 why it is critical that we collaborate and expose as many of our citizens, including
29:46 our women, to education, to opportunity, to finance, so that they too may innovate and
29:53 expand the knowledge base of all of humanity.
29:57 The absence of policy space for governments allow us or refrain from us being able to
30:07 pursue our development agenda in the SDGs.
30:11 The inequitable access to finance, whether from international financial institutions
30:18 or for fair terms and conditions from the private capital markets to the global South,
30:23 all of these impede our ability to provide chances for our people to explore greater
30:28 opportunities in science and technology.
30:32 And that is why we have worked with so many to settle the Bridgetown Initiative or the
30:36 outcomes of UNCTAD 15 or indeed the outcomes of the Buenos Aires Declaration at CELAC earlier
30:43 this year and the commitments both in Paris and Brussels in recent months.
30:49 My friends, we need to be able to see the expansion of science, technology and innovation
30:55 for our people in the developing world, but it will not happen by serendipity.
31:00 It will only happen if we accept that the hour is now and the future is ours to grasp.
31:07 And how many more noble and moral imperatives must we remind the world that is there for
31:13 us to seize to be the subject of this research?
31:18 I referred earlier to the Spanish Armada, but it was really the invention of gunpowder
31:23 and navigational tools that unleashed terror and the quest for dominion for centuries as
31:29 we continue to experience.
31:32 Today's world values knowledge and services and it is against that background, therefore
31:38 we understand that there will be an expansion exponentially of power and a consolidation
31:46 of wealth for those who have access.
31:48 But there is a dangerous part because apart from nation states, the rise of individual
31:54 titans and the rise of multinational corporations whose balance sheets dwarfed the majority
32:01 of the world's states now put us in a precarious position if we do not act with solidarity
32:08 and with purpose.
32:09 As nation states, we cannot choose between investment in food and shelter and rebuilding
32:15 from climate crises rather than investing in education and technology and science.
32:22 We need the policy space, we need the finance and we need the commitment to work together
32:28 to overcome these hurdles if there is to be a last stand in the name of the majority of
32:34 the world's people.
32:35 We need to be able to move to a digital world from an analog world without the fear of being
32:41 in perpetual subjugation.
32:44 My friends, the reality is that we need solidarity if we are to secure justice and opportunity.
32:52 We cannot be business as usual and we cannot allow division to separate us as it has done
33:00 for centuries.
33:01 We must use these science and technological tools as instruments of empowerment and not
33:08 as tools of oppression if we are to work together for our people.
33:12 If science and technology is not to be allowed to run amok in an unregulated global environment,
33:20 we need equally to appreciate what must be done in terms of accountability and transparency
33:27 by our multilateral institutions and through domestic legal enforcement if we are not to
33:33 see the undermining of our democracies and the unravelling of progressive opportunities
33:39 for development.
33:41 My friends, there can be no more appropriate place, Miguel, for us to have met in this
33:47 meeting today.
33:49 Your country has been one of the true beacons of the global south and of the developing
33:55 world with respect to innovation through science and technology.
34:00 With little, you have done much in spite of 60 years of blockade and terrorism against
34:08 you and your people in terms of deprivation.
34:12 Most importantly, you have truly walked the walk of anchoring these innovations in a noble
34:19 mission of service to humanity at large, but equally individuals from villages to towns
34:32 as the people of Cuba have helped so many who could not otherwise help themselves.
34:39 We leave you, therefore, with a clear example that if we are a sovereign state to make a
34:47 difference then we can only do so with the majority intent of coming together.
34:54 The reality is that each of us has taken the time to come here on the eve of the UN General
34:59 Assembly because this is testimony to the esteem in which we hold you and this movement
35:07 of G27 and China.
35:10 It is an important and timely opportunity to have the discussions that will reinforce
35:15 solidarity.
35:16 I say to you simply that that frank exchange of views on highly disruptive technologies
35:24 and the opportunity for empowerment of our people will allow us to determine whether
35:30 we use them to aid us or hurt us.
35:33 The hour, my friends, is upon us and either we work together and multilateralism stays
35:40 as our hallmark or indeed we suffer the consequences of being victims.
35:46 There is far more for us to achieve.
35:50 To paraphrase our late beloved Comandante Fidel Castro, and I quote, "It does not matter
35:56 how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action."
36:02 Let us pledge today, my friends, not because we are here as a matter of form but with purpose
36:09 and intent that we go from here to the General Assembly and to COP, not to be victims of
36:16 an order that continues to want to subjugate us but as shapers of a future that humanity
36:23 most, most, most needs when it faces its greatest crisis for planet, for people, for biodiversity.
36:33 We have the power to seize the future for it is ours.
36:39 Thank you.
36:40 We were listening to the statements of me among the Prime Minister of Barbados.
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