Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, condemns the injustice and the appetite for domination of the powers that unleash a constant violation of human rights, imposition of neoliberal models, massacres and provoke the extermination of cultures and heritages. It also calls for the preservation of democracy, the development of progressive nations and equity. teleSUR
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00:00Thank you, Mr. President.
00:02Ministers, representatives, after hearing so
00:09much analysis, the description of so much
00:13misfortune, so many calamities, and after
00:16hearing detailed descriptions of the
00:17Holocaust that afflict us as a human family,
00:20after watching so much intelligence sparkle
00:24before our eyes, we are left in silence
00:27contemplating the void.
00:28Because whilst we have knowledge, or whilst we
00:32think we have knowledge, we do not find, we
00:35cannot detect common responses to the
00:38weaknesses and pains that beset our society.
00:41There are no responses being found to the
00:43abuses, aberrations, the aggressions of global
00:46powers, to the unjust global order that, from
00:50every angle, seems to increasingly suffocate us.
00:53And that is happening in spite of our
00:56knowledge, our experience, and the spirit that
00:59we have as human beings, the spirit that we
01:01must nourish to better light our way forward.
01:03The tragedies of injustice, supremacist
01:06ambitions, the perverse appetites for
01:09domination, subjugation, and barbarism were
01:14those seen in the worst times that were known
01:17as periods of colonization or conquest.
01:20These phenomena seem to be worsening, keeping
01:24humankind perpetually enslaved to the basest
01:27sentiments, avarice, greed, and the imposition
01:32of models by some on others.
01:34This is all causing us to stray further and
01:37further from the principles and values of
01:39equality and rights that, with sweat and tears,
01:43humanity and intelligence thought they had won.
01:47Disaster after disaster, we continue to sow war
01:50as the savage MO of imperialism and capitalism.
01:54They, too, are savage, barbaric, and fierce.
01:57And we're walking towards the extinction
01:59of all human beings.
02:01We are refusing to accept that only peace can triumph.
02:04That is true because peace is justice.
02:07Peace is peaceful coexistence.
02:09Peace is respectful cooperation.
02:12It is the furtherance of freedom, dignity, and
02:14the sovereignty of all peoples.
02:17Those philosophies, those principles will
02:20guarantee that we can live a life better
02:22than ever before.
02:23But today, peace stands before us as one of the
02:27most distant illusions.
02:28We're not on a journey to peace.
02:31And, incidentally, we're not acquainting ourselves
02:35with this just and lasting peace that could place us
02:39on a path towards a world of brotherhood,
02:41happiness, and solidarity.
02:42Every morning, in so many corners of our planet,
02:45we wake up to death and more death.
02:48We wake up to people being sacrificed on the
02:51bonfires of the insipid supposed superiority of
02:54some over others.
02:56We wake up before killings and massacres which should
03:02mark the consciences of warlords, magnates, and
03:06those that traffic in apocalyptic world wars.
03:09These wars are imposed on some people and by some
03:13people and others.
03:13And they lay waste to beings, cultures, lands.
03:17They crucify.
03:19And they do all of this to ensure that life meets
03:21their tastes, whims, and interests.
03:23In these daily massacres, how much do we lose,
03:26particularly when it comes to the most deeply rooted
03:29human emotions that we have?
03:31Love, brotherhood, and hope.
03:33These are values that human beings seem to be
03:36casting aside.
03:37These values are undoubtedly victims of the
03:40hell that they sell to us as heaven, victims of the
03:45satanic kings that dismiss the tragedies they visit
03:49upon us.
03:50And in so doing, they forget the core principle of
03:52civilization, which should be power enjoyed by all
03:58for the good of all of us.
04:00Every day, we lose heart.
04:02We lose our soul, not because we sell it to the
04:04devil and his satanic underlings, but rather
04:07because our generations that should have learned so
04:10much from the millions of human beings that have
04:12sacrificed throughout history on the bonfires of
04:15vanity and ambitions.
04:17They are these people are the victims of deadly
04:24selfishness, lessons that they failed to learn from.
04:28You forget all of that.
04:29And instead, enemies of peace try to convert the
04:33world into the most arid of deserts, spiritually arid.
04:37And we ignore all of this.
04:40And we fail to harness our human strength.
04:43We're faced with so much aggression, barbarism,
04:46attacks, crimes.
04:47Satanic assaults are being waged on all of us.
04:51Evil seems to be trumping good.
04:54But in the face of all of that, peoples are left,
04:57those peoples that know how to fight, peoples of
04:59culture, spiritual experience and dignity and
05:03national decorum.
05:04That is our great asset.
05:05That is our most invaluable heritage.
05:08That is the kingdom of God on Earth.
05:11This is the beginning, the dawning of a new world
05:15which is being born, rising from the ashes of
05:20anguish, suffering and pain.
05:22All of these things have been imposed upon us by
05:25sick minds that do not see, do not wish to see the
05:28arrival of this other good world.
05:31They continue to try and live in the past.
05:34Centuries pass for their own benefit.
05:37They try to stay living in the old and blood-soaked world.
05:40How much pain, how many battles, how many chains,
05:44how much enslavery are we going to suffer?
05:50Because on the other hand, we have our human
05:52condition that goes from strength to strength, from
05:55truth to truth.
05:56We're increasingly waking up to the truth.
05:58We show more and more courage, more and more
06:00valor.
06:01And every day, in the face of suffering, we enjoy
06:06more glory.
06:07We see more and more victories of the truth.
06:10And our human spirit is prevailing, just as it must.
06:13No one can strip us of our certainty of a new world.
06:17No one can deprive us of the reality of a brotherly
06:19world, a world of understanding, solidarity,
06:22and respectful cooperation in the present and for the
06:26well-being of all.
06:28In the old world, designed by the conquistadores,
06:33they will, those conquistadores will remain
06:36with their ambitions thwarted, sad and alone.
06:38They will be condemned and rejected by those of us
06:41that have learned to revere love, learned to root out
06:45hatred and what it imposes upon us.
06:47We've learned to bury humiliation, indignity, and
06:52we've learned to dismiss terror, the fear that they
06:56use to pressure us and intimidate us, those as the
06:59evil of the Earth.
07:01We will never yield.
07:02We will never bow to the enemies of peace or the
07:05enemies of common good.
07:06We will never be enslaved by selfishness and avarice.
07:09And we will never be blind to the atrocities committed
07:12by those who sow the mendacious narrative of
07:16their hypocritical acolytes, those that use
07:20artificial techniques and tactics, and who use
07:25technical or film to sell us a childish world, a
07:29fictional world that pretend to be blind, deaf, and
07:32mute, paralyzed.
07:35And we will never bow to those that acquit those
07:38that are guilty of so many crimes against humanity.
07:41We will not be silent, ever.
07:44We denounce and condemn the genocide that the
07:46government of Israel and its First World allies
07:48have committed, commit, and continue to commit
07:50against the glorious people of Palestine, against
07:53the courageous people of Lebanon, and against so
07:55many other brave, valiant, dignified people.
07:58None of us will yield to brutality.
08:01We are not silent.
08:02We will never be silent.
08:03We denounce and condemn the aggressions against
08:05Syria, Iran, and against all other great peoples
08:10in their struggles.
08:12We stand with our brothers on all continents.
08:14We will never be silent.
08:16We denounce and condemn the occupation and
08:18hijacking of the rights of people such as Haiti.
08:21We are not silent.
08:22We will never be silent.
08:24We denounce and condemn the systematic policy of
08:26extermination of cultures and rights that colonial
08:29imperialist powers visit upon peoples, governments,
08:32and countries who, like Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia,
08:35Nicaragua, are members of the Bolivarian Alliance
08:39for the Peoples of our America.
08:41ALBA.
08:42ALBA is a strategic unit with which we defend our
08:45sovereignty, independence, and legitimate models of
08:50institutions, our models of self-governance and
08:55direct and participative democracy.
08:56We stand shoulder to shoulder with all
08:59countries and peoples affected by barbarism and
09:02the brutality which was unleashed and is being
09:05unleashed against our Mother Earth and our resources.
09:08That is causing what we know today as climate change.
09:11Climate change is none other than selfishness and
09:14the pillaging of our earthly resources.
09:17That pillaging has created myriad disasters,
09:20disasters which are not natural, disasters which
09:23require climate justice, disasters that have been
09:27imposed upon us by selfish slave masters.
09:31The pillagers of our world, the filibusters, they've
09:34done all of that without regard for what we're
09:38losing, without compensation, redress, or
09:40reparation for what we've lost.
09:42We stand shoulder to shoulder in brotherliness,
09:46solidarity, in just struggles for food security,
09:51health security, education, rights, human security.
09:55These are all rights that we will never give up on.
09:59Of course, we are fighting an urgent daily struggle
10:04against terrorism in all its forms, against drug
10:07trafficking, organized crime, all vices and
10:09criminal activities that have been imposed upon us
10:12to weaken our institutions, models, and
10:14practices, and in order to increase interference
10:18into our ways of life.
10:21Those doing that are attempting to instill and
10:26establish ways of living which are not our own.
10:30They're seeking to, in so doing, create an image of
10:33us according to which we are incapable, mere beggars.
10:36We will never accept that model.
10:38There are invaders, those interventionists that are
10:43dressed in sheepskin that have the faces of wolves,
10:46and to them we say we are people rich in culture,
10:49resources, and community models.
10:52We are rich in values that have been distorted,
10:55slandered, or worn down.
10:56We will not allow ourselves to be converted into
10:59needy beggars because we're not beggars, and we'll not
11:03allow you to pretend that we are just because you want
11:06to be falsely kind and generous.
11:09Your interests are patently clear, and you're using
11:12them to interfere in our own affairs.
11:14That's not only unacceptable, it's
11:16despicable and unbecoming.
11:18We have a right to our freedoms and the supreme
11:21dignity of our spirit and culture.
11:23We have a right to our own conscience and
11:26our own convictions.
11:28We are allowed to learn and continue on our humble
11:32pilgrimage, a pilgrimage that means that we learn
11:34from everyone.
11:35We're able to incorporate the good into how we live,
11:38to cast aside and reject everything that seeks to
11:41make us into servile machines divided by the
11:45strategies of the imperialists of the earth.
11:48We defend our highest dreams.
11:50We do so alongside Bolivar, Marti, Sandino, Morazan,
11:54and alongside so many great figures that preceded us
11:58and led the way for our struggles so that we would
12:01win, vanquish, and triumph.
12:03Nothing is free in this world.
12:05We must become more aware, and our heart must grow
12:09bigger every day.
12:10We must be absolutely lucid, clear, and coherent in
12:13our action because it is only the union of the
12:16peoples of the planet that will be able to vanquish
12:19the earth's imperialists.
12:20It is only this union that will make them retreat,
12:25even though they continue to criminally machinate,
12:28and they do everything they can to distort us.
12:32But we will distort them.
12:34ALBA is a triumphant alliance, and we stand
12:38shoulder to shoulder with Chavez, Nicolás,
12:40and his great people.
12:41We are one with the Cuba of Fidel, Raul, Miguel,
12:45and their dignified and fearless resistance.
12:47We are one with Bolivia and its laudable path forward.
12:52We are one with Honduras and its challenges.
12:54We are one with Mesoamerica and the challenges it faces.
12:57We are one with Asia, with the Arab peoples,
13:00with the peoples of that black Africa,
13:03the peoples that live among us.
13:05We are one with the Russian Federation in its
13:08major struggles against the beast of fascism,
13:11battles that we will win.
13:14About this, there can be no doubt.
13:16We are one with the People's Republic of China,
13:19a country that teaches us so much,
13:21that bestows upon us their wisdom and experience
13:25in developing their people's well-being.
13:28They bring to us lessons of global solidarity
13:31for a community of the future.
13:33We stand with all the fighters and warriors of
13:35the world and with the strength and dignity
13:39that we've always had.
13:40And today, we will not allow ourselves
13:45to be crucified for these values.
13:49On the contrary, we will rise up with pride and happiness.
13:53We will fly our flags and standards proud
13:55because we know that humanity and the human spirit
13:58must conquer all.
14:00We will prevail.
14:01It is only by prevailing that we will spread and preserve
14:04the highest, loftiest values of the humanity
14:08that we all inhabit.
14:10Our Nicaragua is blessed, dignified,
14:12always sovereign, Christian, socialist,
14:15solidarity-based.
14:16And from that Nicaragua, we embrace you all,
14:19all of you in this world that want peace,
14:21affection, respect, rights, and well-being.
14:23We will always stand together, and together,
14:26we will go forward.
14:27We'll build upon the legacy of our victorious
14:30General Augusto Sindino, and we will do so
14:33with the poetry of our great Rubén DarÃo in mind.
14:37And here, I quote,
14:39A great flight of crows stains the blue sky.
14:42A thousand-year-old breath threatens plague.
14:45In the Far East, men are being murdered.
14:48Has the apocalyptic Antichrist been born?
14:52Omens have been witnessed and wonders seen.
14:55The return of Christ seems imminent.
14:59The earth is pregnant with pain so deep
15:03that the dreamer, imperious, lost in thought,
15:07suffers all the anxieties of the heart of the world.
15:10Executioners of ideals afflict the earth,
15:14locking up humanity in a shadowy pit,
15:17along with the brutes of hatred and war.
15:20Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, why do you take so long?
15:23Why wait to spread your hand of light
15:26over these wild beasts
15:28and make your divine banners brilliant in the sun?
15:31It rises suddenly, pouring out life's essence
15:34over so many crazed, sad, or hardened souls,
15:38so in love with darkness as to forget your sweet dawn.
15:42Come, Lord, show us in all your glory.
15:45Come with trembling stars and the dread of cataclysm.
15:49Come bringing love and peace across the abyss.
15:52Let your white horse, which the visionary witnessed,
15:56come in and let that divine, extraordinary clarion sound,
16:00and may my heart be an ember of your swaying incense.
16:05Today, we remember the Nicaraguan father,
16:08priest, ambassador of the dignity
16:10and decorum of our peoples, Miguel Escoto Brockman.
16:14He fought, and he bequeathed upon us the responsibility
16:17to fight for the remodeling of the United Nations
16:20so that the United Nations could serve the cause of debate
16:23and the struggle for justice,
16:25the right to harmony and happiness of the peoples.
16:28The United Nations as an instrument
16:31belonging precisely to nations themselves,
16:34an instrument to denounce, condemn, reject,
16:37and repudiate all abominations
16:39and aberrations perpetrated against all of us.
16:42It is an instrument to encourage good affection,
16:46to root out evil, opprobrium, and hatred in our relations.
16:50Our relations, our ties,
16:52should be those of brotherly coexistence.
16:54Peoples of the world go forward.
16:56The Earth must be the paradise of all of humankind.
16:59The world will be different and better.
17:01That's what we're working for.
17:02That's why we are united, and that is what we believe in.
17:07Allow me to bring to you the affection
17:09of all of Nicaragua's people,
17:10that of President Commander Daniel Ortega
17:13and Vice President Rosario Murillo.
17:15Many thanks indeed.