President Nicolas Maduro's speech at the BRICS Summit held in the Russian city of Kazan. teleSUR
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00:00President Vladimir Putin, presidents, heads of state, heads of delegations, I have brought
00:13a speech to read, but this is a very rich dialogue.
00:22There are elements of support I have taken notes of in this continuous search for joint
00:37efforts of humanity, creating a new international order.
00:43I congratulate President Putin for the inclusive aspect of the leadership of Russia for the
00:54organization of this summit.
00:58Venezuela has participated in all instances, in all forms, technical, political, more than
01:10200 meetings, looking for practical solutions for the needs of this world.
01:23Aspiring for a new world is an old topic.
01:31After the Second World War, a restructuring of the United Nations, focus on different
01:41peoples and a system was created that gave hope and basis, were created for international
01:52rights assumed by countries of all regions in the world.
02:00The search of change, reminded by the foreign minister of Brazil, had many leaders in the
02:12creation of the non-aligned countries, a hope in the 50s, 60s, with Egypt, Indonesia, Cuba,
02:22among the promoters of that moment of decolonizing of Africa, Asia, and search of independence
02:33and dignity.
02:35The movement of non-alliance had an important position in that time.
02:46The G20 emerged for the United Nations.
02:52Security BRICS emerged in a moment in which there is a change in times.
03:03A new era has emerged.
03:07New powers, new superpowers have been born in countries such as Venezuela and regions
03:16such as Latin America and Caribbean.
03:19We can see Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia.
03:25We hope, but also with our big dreams, we aspire, we want our right to independence
03:39to be respected.
03:41BRICS has put in the international sphere new paradigms.
03:50And paying attention to Johannes Burgo declaration and Cassan's declaration, I would highlight
03:57two elements.
03:58One, the need of a new economic agenda with practical solutions to the problems of international
04:06commerce.
04:07Also, in financing exchange is a need, Mr. President, a new financing structure.
04:18We have to say clearly we are aware of the need.
04:24It is not only about making little reforms of the funding system, financing system that
04:34cannot resist more reforms, because former countries, colonial countries, want to impose
04:45mechanisms of hegemony in the financing systems.
04:55That's why Venezuela insists in the need for moving forward in solidifying the new bank
05:07of BRICS and new for the people of the global south for their development to have access
05:14to investment to move forward with a new system of payment, substituting the payment systems
05:23used sometimes as weapons.
05:26Venezuela was taking out of payment systems as sanctions and ways of attacking that you
05:36all well know.
05:38It is necessary currencies that combine currencies of superpowers with the right of our countries
05:51to have access to it.
05:52We have to find solutions for the challenges of a new economy, including independent countries
06:00that aspire to dignity.
06:03Second, a refunding of the United Nations system is necessary.
06:09I was telling to Antonio Gutierrez, every time a missile hits a building in Gaza and
06:20kill people, every time a missile hits Beirut or Lebanon, those missiles destroy the system
06:33of the United Nations.
06:35Where is the International Court of Justice?
06:39Was it only created to follow and hunt countries from the south?
06:46It is only there to take out documents, show regulations.
06:54The lives of Palestinian children don't have value.
06:59We have to look for solutions for the restructuring of the United Nations system, agonizing in
07:09the emergence of Nazi and fascist groups.
07:16A new world is possible.
07:19We believe that a new world has already been born.
07:23BRICS is the center of the emergence of this new world, a world with values and principles.
07:35As I said to Vladimir Putin yesterday, Venezuela is part of this family of BRICS.
07:43I thank the invitation.
07:45The first time that a president of Venezuela attends to BRICS summit, we take into consideration
07:58the BRICS principles with conviction.
08:01Two hundred years ago, in a totally different country, Simón Bolívar talked with the sword
08:10in his hands, liberating continents, and wanted the balance in the world.
08:17As said by Hugo Chávez Fría, the time of a multicenter plural world has arrived.
08:33BRICS can count on Venezuela and with the project of our revolution.