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                    <p
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                      leaders from roughly 190 countries gathered in
                      September for the general debate of the United
                      Nations General Assembly (UNGA).</p>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
                      year, many governments condemned the United States
                      and Israel for carrying out crimes against
                      humanity in Gaza. </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Representatives
                      of numerous countries expressed support for the
                      Palestinian people, while denouncing Western
                      imperialism.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>A
                        UN commission and multiple UN legal experts have
                        stated conclusively that </span><a
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                        genocide in Gaza</a><span>.</span></p>
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style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
                      the 2025 UNGA general debate, it was left-wing
                      leaders from Latin America who led the resistance
                      against the US empire.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Colombia\u2019s
                      President Gustavo Petro compared the US government
                      to Nazi Germany and referred to Donald Trump as
                      the \u201cnew Hitler\u201d.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWashington
                      and NATO are killing democracy, and they are
                      spreading totalitarianism at the global level\u201d,
                      Petro warned.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      Colombian leader called for an international
                      coalition to militarily intervene to physically
                      stop the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Brazil\u2019s
                      President Lula da Silva made similar remarks,
                      emphasizing that the US-led West is destroying
                      international humanitarian law (all emphasis
                      added):</p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Nothing,
                          absolutely nothing, justifies the </span><strong>ongoing
                          genocide in Gaza</strong><span>.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">There,
                        under tons of rubble, are buried tens of
                        thousands of innocent women and children.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>International
                          humanitarian law and the </span><strong>myth
                          of the ethical exceptionalism of the West are
                          also buried there</strong><span>.</span></p>
                    </blockquote>
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style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">UN
                      diplomats stage mass walkout to protest Israeli
                      leader Netanyahu</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      fact, when Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin
                      Netanyahu spoke at the General Assembly, there was
                      a mass protest inside the hall, in the UN
                      headquarters in New York City.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      diplomatic representatives of dozens of countries
                      walked out in protest, while chanting and shouting
                      \u201cBoo!\u201d</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
                      is extremely rare at the UN. It illustrates how
                      isolated Israel is on the international stage.</p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      fact, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has
                      issued an outstanding arrest warrant for
                      Netanyahu, formally charging him with committing
                      crimes against humanity in Gaza.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Nevertheless,
                      the US government has repeatedly invited Netanyahu
                      to come to the US, and the Trump administration
                      imposed sanctions on the ICC, attacking the court
                      for daring to take action against a US ally.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">These
                      actions demonstrate that the US and Israel are
                      rogue states that are waging a full frontal
                      assault on international law, and seeking to
                      destroy multilateral institutions.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">They
                      are also completely isolated on the international
                      stage. The diplomats who walked out in protest of
                      Netanyahu represent the voices of the Global
                      Majority.</p>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Latin
                      America condemns US-Israeli genocide, fascism, and
                      imperialism</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      representative of Nicaragua\u2019s revolutionary
                      Sandinista government, Foreign Minister Denis
                      Moncada, condemned the genocide in Gaza and noted
                      that Israel is following exactly the same
                      \u201cpractices of the other colonial, imperial,
                      neocolonial, and fascist powers\u201d: </p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>We
                          reiterate our historical and </span><strong>permanent
                          condemnation of the genocide</strong><span>,
                          the barbaric policy of denial of the
                          Palestinian people.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">We
                        condemn all the savage, brutal massacres that
                        are perpetrated and spreading in clear view,
                        with the complacency of the entire world.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>We
                          condemn the state of Israel, just as we have
                          condemned and do condemn the policies and
                          practices of the other </span><strong>colonial,
                          imperial, neocolonial, and fascist powers</strong><span>.</span></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Venezuela
                      also expressed its solidarity with Palestine, and
                      denounced the US war of aggression against Iran.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Venezuela\u2019s
                      Foreign Minister Yván Gil declared, \u201cWe stand in
                      solidarity with the heroic people of Palestine,
                      and we call for the end of the genocide waged by
                      Israel\u2019s Zionist regime\u201d.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cWe
                      condemn attacks against the territorial integrity
                      and sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran\u201d,
                      he added.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Cuba\u2019s
                      Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla opened
                      his speech by expressing solidarity with
                      Palestine, while blasting the US for aiding
                      Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza. This is what he said:</p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>As
                          we meet here, </span><strong>2.2 million
                          human beings in Gaza are condemned to hunger
                          by the genocidal extermination and ethnic
                          cleansing actions of the Zionist regime</strong><span>,
                          which enjoys the military and financial
                          supplies and the </span><strong>impunity
                          guaranteed by the government of the United
                          States</strong><span>.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">On
                        behalf of the government and people of Cuba, I
                        reiterate our firmest solidarity with the
                        Palestinian people and with their just cause for
                        freedom, independence, and an end to the Zionist
                        occupation.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">If
                        the Security Council proves itself impotent
                        because of the veto that the United States
                        wields or threatens to wield, and is incapable
                        of adopting effective measures to halt the
                        barbarity, then this General Assembly has the
                        duty and the capacity to put forward concrete
                        measures without delay.</p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">World
                      leaders insist UN must be reformed, as US abuses
                      veto to continue genocide in Gaza</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      their speeches at the 2025 general debate,
                      representatives of many countries warned that the
                      continuation of the genocide in Gaza demonstrates
                      the ineffectiveness of the United Nations, on the
                      80th anniversary of the body\u2019s founding.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Although
                      the UN is important, given that it is one of very
                      few international institutions that provides all
                      countries with a voice, in practice, those voices
                      are often silenced, because the institution is
                      dominated by the United States and its Western
                      allies.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Power
                      in the UN is concentrated in the Security Council,
                      where the US has abused its veto, to prevent the
                      world from taking any actions it doesn\u2019t like.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Between
                      October 2023 and September 2025, the US government
                      used its veto six times to unilaterally block
                      resolutions that called for peace and a ceasefire
                      in Gaza.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      Joe Biden administration used the veto four times,
                      and the Trump administration has used it twice in
                      eight months.</p>
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                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      2024, the US also vetoed a resolution in the
                      Security Council that called for Palestine to be
                      admitted as a full UN member.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">That
                      was when Biden, a Democrat, was president.
                      Opposition to equal rights for Palestinians is
                      bipartisan in Washington.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">A
                      few weeks after the US vetoed the resolution in
                      the Security Council, another vote was held in the
                      General Assembly to call to admit Palestine as a
                      full member.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Of
                      the 193 UN member states, 143, or 74.1%, voted to
                      admit Palestine.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Only
                      nine countries, representing just 4.7%, voted
                      against admitting Palestine: the United States and
                      its proxies. </p>
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style="font-size: 16px;line-height: 26px;margin: 32px auto;">
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                              <td style="text-align: center;"></td>
                              <td class="content" align="left"
                                width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a
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                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Colombia\u2019s
                      President Gustavo Petro calls for international
                      intervention to stop genocide in Gaza</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Given
                      that the United States has paralyzed the UN and
                      halted all efforts at ending the genocide in Gaza,
                      Colombia\u2019s President Gustavo Petro urged countries
                      to create an international armed force to
                      physically intervene to save the Palestinian
                      people.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u201cThe
                      United States no longer teaches democracy, but
                      rather kills democracy\u201d, Petro said. </p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">While
                      comparing the US government to Nazi Germany and
                      calling Trump the \u201cnew Hitler\u201d, Petro warned,
                      \u201cWashington and NATO are killing democracy, and
                      they are spreading totalitarianism at the global
                      level\u201d.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Petro\u2019s
                      remarks were especially symbolic, because Colombia
                      has historically been the closest US ally in Latin
                      America.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Colombia
                        was dominated for decades by right-wing
                        oligarchic leaders who were extremely pro-US
                        (and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6eb28fa5-a3bb-401c-980c-d5b324ebebe4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">deeply involved in drug
                        trafficking</a><span>).</span></p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">In
                      fact, Venezuela\u2019s leftist President Hugo Chávez
                      had famously dubbed Colombia \u201cthe Israel of Latin
                      America\u201d.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Gustavo
                      Petro is Colombia\u2019s first ever left-wing
                      president, and has pursued an independent foreign
                      policy for the first time in the modern history of
                      the South American country.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This
                      is what Petro said at the 2025 general debate of
                      the UN General Assembly:</p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>First
                          and foremost, </span><strong>we need to stop
                          the genocide in Gaza</strong><span>. Humanity
                          cannot allow a single day more of this
                          genocide, and for the genocidal Netanyahu and
                          his allies in Europe and the United States to
                          continue.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                        United Nations must uphold the decisions of the
                        International Court of Justice. International
                        law is the basis of civilization, and of its
                        wisdom, as distilled in history. And it must
                        make sure that the decisions of international
                        justice are implemented, are applied.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Diplomacy
                        has been tried in Gaza; it could not resolve the
                        situation.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Every
                        single day, every single minute, a missile is
                        fired and destroys the the bodies of babies, and
                        children, in the Arab state of Palestine.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Every
                        day, there are resolutions that are vetoed in
                        the Security Council.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Every
                        day, more and more children die. More and more
                        bombs, more and more dead.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Can
                        we stop the genocide with a vote in the General
                        Assembly? Yes, that is what we should do, rather
                        than a vote in the Security Council, because
                        that is vetoed.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>United
                          for peace for Palestine, </span><strong>we
                          should establish a peacekeeping force</strong><span>.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u2026</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>What
                          we need is a powerful army of countries that
                          do not accept genocide</strong><span>.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>That
                          is why invite nations of the world and their
                          peoples, most importantly, as an integral part
                          of humanity, to bring together weapons and
                          armies, and to defend Palestine.</strong></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">I
                        invite the armies of Asia, and the brave Slavic
                        people who defeated Hitler, and the Latin
                        American people of Bolivia, Garibaldi, and
                        others.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">I
                        think there\u2019s enough. We\u2019ve had enough words.
                        Today, the time has come to use the slogan of
                        Bolívar: freedom or death.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>Because
                          Washington and NATO are killing democracy, and
                          they are spreading totalitarianism at the
                          global level.</strong></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">\u2026</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>The
                          United States no longer teaches democracy, but
                          rather kills democracy</strong><span> \u2014
                          especially among its immigrants, filled with
                          greed</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                        UN should begin its change by stopping the
                        genocide in Gaza, with an army of liberation and
                        salvation.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">And
                        there should be a decision here taken in the
                        General Assembly, without any veto.</p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <h3 class="header-anchor-post"
style="position: relative;font-family: 'SF Pro Display',-apple-system-headline,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Segoe UI Symbol';font-weight: bold;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;-moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased;-webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility;-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility;appearance: optimizelegibility;margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 1.16em;font-size: 1.375em;">Honduras
                      and Cuba call for a new international order</h3>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      need for a new international order was highlighted
                      by the representatives of several Latin American
                      countries.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                      foreign minister of the left-wing government of
                      Honduras, Javier Bú Soto, emphasized that the UN
                      has been unable to stop the wars fueled by the US,
                      so the organization needs to undergo a fundamental
                      transformation:</p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                        world is not peaceful. The genocide in Gaza; the
                        devastation in Ukraine; persistent violent
                        crises, particularly in the Middle East, Africa,
                        and Haiti; the dangerous weapons business of
                        global capitalism; all show the failure of the
                        multilateral system to fulfill its essential
                        mandate to achieve peace; to prevent barbarism;
                        to stop the progression of the nuclear race,
                        which major powers are engaged in, and which
                        could be the apocalypse of humanity.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">We
                        categorically reject the fact that the most
                        important decisions on peace and security
                        throughout the world are hoarded in the hands of
                        five permanent members of the Security Council.
                        Their veto power, which has become an
                        anachronistic privilege, has paralyzed
                        collective action, and the calls for peace in
                        different parts of the world; and has allowed
                        those committing war crimes to enjoy impunity.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>The
                          UN cannot remain a hostage to special
                          interests</strong><span>, nor can it be idly </span><strong>complicit
                          in the face of the destruction of entire
                          peoples</strong><span>. </span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">It
                        is morally unacceptable that, while billions of
                        dollars are spent on weapons, budgets for
                        peacekeeping operations, humanitarian aid, and
                        sustainable development are being slashed.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>How
                          can it be justified that the voice of 193
                          states who are present in this General
                          Assembly, and who are in favor of peace and to
                          put an end to the different power blocs, can
                          be </span><strong>canceled out by one vote</strong><span>?</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>We
                          cannot continue to sustain a </span><strong>global
                          order founded on privilege and inequality</strong><span>
                          that leads to suffering for millions of poor
                          people throughout the world.</span></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Cuba\u2019s
                      foreign minister pointed out that, when the UN was
                      founded in 1945, there were only 51 member states.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">At
                      that time, there were still many countries in the
                      global South that were formally colonized by the
                      European powers.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Throughout
                      the 1950s, \u201860s, and \u201870s, in a series of
                      national-liberation struggles, countries of the
                      Global South finally won their independence from
                      Western colonialism.</p>
                    <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Today,
                      there are 193 UN member states. But the structure
                      of the UN remains essentially colonial and
                      undemocratic, and it needs to be changed, stressed
                      Cuba\u2019s foreign minister:</p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #ad0000;margin: 20px 0;padding: 0;margin-bottom: 0;">
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">11
                        million people, 3 million of them children, die
                        every year from hunger and associated diseases.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The
                        climate crisis is destroying nations and lives,
                        devastating communities and economies.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>A
                          handful of countries and individuals have
                          amassed more wealth than the vast majority of
                          all other countries combined.</strong></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>Colossal
                          inequalities</strong><span> stifle and prevent
                          sustainable development.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>There
                          has been no effective global response to
                          today\u2019s serious challenges. There could not
                          be, because </span><strong>the current world
                          order reflects a bygone era when most
                          developing countries did not even exist as
                          independent states</strong><span>.</span></p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">80
                        years ago, the United Nations was founded with
                        only 51 member states. Today, we are 193.</p>
                      <p
style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);margin-left: 20px;line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><strong>The
                          most urgent priority is to create a new
                          international order</strong><span> that
                          guarantees peace, the right to development,
                          sovereign equality, participation and
                          representation of developing countries in
                          global policy decisions; that provides for the
                          common good and prosperity in harmony with
                          nature; and ensures the exercise of all human
                          rights for all people.</span></p>
                    </blockquote>
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