September 24, 2024
Summit of the Future, photo: UN
In the context of the Summit of the Future that took place between September 20 and 23 in New York City, United States, several leaders and representatives of Latin American countries stood united while expressing their will by advocating for a more plural and equitable world.
Colombia:
Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, pointed to Artificial Intelligence as one of the new causes of the climate crisis the planet is experiencing.
“Artificial Intelligence, by using enormous amounts of energy, much more than we use today, is then going to be a major contributor to the climate crisis. If Artificial Intelligence uses fossil fuels as a source of energy, we would then have, as Stephen Hawking said, an armageddon, the end. Such a world would only give us the destruction of democracy and generalized barbarism,” Petro said.
Likewise, the Colombian president pointed out that the world needs to lean towards the use of clean energies to thus “feed Artificial Intelligence” and for its productivity to be transformed into “free time” for people.
“We could then find other kinds of world development in the future: clean energies, decarbonization, high productivity, societies with free time, which would be the real wealth,” he stressed.
Chile:
For his part, the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric questioned on Monday that members of the Security Council may have the right to veto resolutions that are not of their convenience.
Boric put on the table examples such as the United States. “2024 is not 1945, we have seen it in different cases, where one country or another, depending on the geopolitical conflict, vetoes a resolution, for example, in the case of Palestine recently with the veto of the United States or as Russia previously did regarding some other conflict, if it did not like a resolution,” he stressed.
He also stressed that the countries that have this weapon in their favor should not have it, while cataloguing the Security Council as an entity that does not represent “the world as it is today”.
“From Chile, without pretending to be a member of the Security Council, we do demand that the rules of the game be changed so that they adapt once and for all to the new world in which we live (…) if we are not capable of changing this institution where we are all supposedly serious, reasonable people, who are here representing their countries, how can we demand that our own peoples change?
Honduras:
The foreign minister of Honduras, Eduardo Reina, put on the table the proposal to form a world summit for global peace.
“We consider that this is the ideal moment for the Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres to promote a summit whose objective is to reaffirm international peace and security in the framework of the Pact for the Future when great tragedies such as the one experienced by the Palestinian people are living through,” Reina remarked.
He also explained that the founding charter of the UN was inspired by “the possibility of achieving a hopeful future for humanity, which at that time had been struck by war, desolation and death”.
Venezuela:
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil urged for a ceasefire in Gaza, while the number of Palestinians killed by the Zionist occupation in the Gaza Strip exceeds 41,400, most of them women and children.
“We reiterate our urgent call for a ceasefire in Gaza, our call for justice and an end to the illegal Israeli occupation,” Gil said during his speech.
“It is time to move towards the elimination of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations, it is our moral and ethical duty to conclude the still pending decolonization processes,” he said.
He also urged the participating States to respect the Charter of the United Nations. “We insist that true multilateralism and the application without double standards of the principles of the UN Charter constitute the core of international relations and are necessary for the peaceful existence of nations,” he stressed.
Nicaragua:
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Jaentschke insisted that government exchange builds a pathway to increase the flow of official assistance, technology transfer and capacity building.
“We are meeting not only to talk about the future but to build it collectively,” the Nicaraguan diplomat noted.
Jaentschke also stressed that the countries that make up the Global South have not “perceived or received an adequate or fair response from the developed countries in relation to the commitments they have made and thus begin to answer for their historical responsibilities in creating the unjust conditions they have only generated”.
Source: Cuba en Resumen