[News] Cuba's address to the UN

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ADDRESS  BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. RICARDO ALARCON DE QUESADA, SPEAKER OF THE 
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLE'S POWER OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA AT THE 
HIGH-LEVEL PLENARY MEETING OF THE 60TH SESSION OF THE UN GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY.  NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 16, 2005.





Mr. Chairman,



This meeting was called for the purpose of reviewing the progress that has 
been made “towards the commitments articulated in the UN Millennium 
Declaration” and “in the implementation of the outcomes and commitments of 
the major UN Conferences and Summits”. This aim, however, been completely 
distorted.



Eight objectives and 18 goals had been set, most for the year 2015. They 
were far from immodest. To reduce poverty and hunger by a half, make 
primary education accessible to everyone, encourage gender equality and the 
empowerment of women, reduce infant mortality, improve the health of 
mothers, combat HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, guarantee 
environmental sustainability and develop global alliances for development.



Very little has been done to reach these goals. In many of these areas, we 
have actually moved backwards.



That was what we needed to discuss here, today, to undertake resolute and 
urgent actions which would allow us to move forward. That was our 
obligation as participants in this Summit.



What we witness, instead, is an unforgivable sham. This meeting was 
hijacked through tortuous manipulation. Those who fancy themselves the 
world’s owners do not even want to remember those promises and the 
hypocritical fanfare that came with them.



What is worse, they seek to impose alleged reforms in the UN which only 
seek to subjugate the organization completely and transform it into an 
instrument of their global dictatorship.



They would have war and hegemony become norms the world must accept 
unquestioningly. Along the way, with the help of submissive coryphaei, they 
tear the Charter to shreds, seek to reduce the Secretariat to a tool for 
their designs and insult the Assembly and the world that it, and only it, 
represents.



In the name of what? A might whose limits their ignorance keeps them from 
seeing? A phony war on terrorism which massacres entire populations and 
takes thousands of young Americans to their death? A policy that, all the 
while, hypocritically protects a convicted and confessed terrorist like 
Luis Posada Carriles and, in violation of US law itself, keeps five 
innocent people in prison, punishing them because they did combat terrorism?



Greed, egoism and irrationally will bring catastrophe upon us, and those 
who refuse to accept the possibility of a different world, born of 
solidarity and justice, will not be spared.



A world without hunger or poverty, which offers everyone a healthy life, 
education and dignity, a world free of oppression and discrimination, 
without wars or genocidal blockades, where the exploitation of the weakest 
has been done away with.



The powerful can pretend they do not believe this, but poor nations have 
the right to development and shall continue to fight for it.



They shall continue to strive for it beyond these walls, outside of this 
room. In spite of the blockade, the harassment and threats, the Bolivarian 
Alternative for the Americas emerges as a result of the historical 
leadership and generosity of President Hugo Chávez Frías, whose speech 
pronounced here yesterday, echoed the voices of peoples in his 
condemnation, which we fully support.  The Bolivarian Alternative for the 
Americas is an example of solidarity among peoples, returning hope to many, 
working towards true integration and development , and announcing a 
different world that all of us can build. The Alternative, a new dawn, 
spreads to the world from the South.



Thank you, very much.

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