During the second congress on the new international economic order held in Havana, our correspondent Irma Shelton interviewed several personalities including Attiya Waris, independent expert of the Human Rights Council. teleSUR
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00:00 During the second Congress on the new international economic order held in Havana, our correspondent Irma Shelton interviewed Atiya Uwari,
00:07 independent expert of the Human Rights Council, who gave her opinion on how the Congress is held in a country blocked for more than 60 years.
00:15 I really wanted to see the resilience of people that have been engaged in a way or a method of having an economy
00:26 where it hasn't received support from many parts of the world.
00:30 And to try and understand from an economic perspective, because I'm the special rapporteur, independent expert on foreign debt,
00:38 that this is a country that only receives private debt but not public debt.
00:42 So being able to understand how an independent country is able to engage in this,
00:48 and then that still seeks new ways of thinking and new ways of dealing with issues is a testament to the resilience of the people.
00:57 But it's also something to be said for the right to be different and then the right to think differently,
01:05 the right to have a different way or approach to life.
01:11 And I think it is something that should be celebrated.
01:16 During the second Congress on the new international economic order held in Havana,
01:21 our correspondent Irma Sheltow also spoke with Senegalese economist Ndongo Samba Sijar.
01:26 The experts referred to the importance of drafting a joint agenda to achieve a sustainable economic order.
01:32 I think we had very important presentations that made a diagnosis of the current world where we are living in.
01:42 Learnings also from the new international economic order in the 1970s, because that agenda failed to some extent.
01:51 Because we saw that once it was launched, the immediate response from the global north had been the imposition of structural adjustment plans.
02:02 And now we have to think about all of that to learn from the past so as to be able to create an opening for the kind of a fairer global system we are aspiring to.
02:15 Now the thing is, we could say that the global south is to some extent more empowered in the sense that
02:25 we have countries which have developed great technical and industrial skills.
02:35 And if we manage to organize differently, for example having alternative payment systems,
02:41 there are many things we could do within the global south that will empower us collectively and also individually.