Special envoy Jorge Gestoso offers details of the afternoon session of the general debate at the 79th session of the UNGA. teleSUR
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00:00Heads of state and government representatives continued to take the floor Thursday on the
00:04fourth day of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
00:08Our special envoy to New York, Jorge Estoso, with the details.
00:17Fourth day of the general debate here at the United Nations and in the afternoon was the
00:23return of the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, we're talking about Mr.
00:29Ralph Gonsalves, and it was very interesting, his words, because he mentioned about the
00:36ghost of the Monroe Doctrine saying that it's still alive and kicking in Latin America and
00:44violating some international rights with the implantation of sanctions to different countries,
00:53including, of course, Venezuela and Cuba.
00:56Also he mentions that it's unacceptable at all the situation of the genocide against
01:03the Palestinian people and the disparities going on in the world throughout the banking
01:11system, the financial system.
01:13But very interesting that he put emphasis that that doctrine of James Monroe, we're
01:19talking about a former president of the United States that 200 years ago said that America
01:26for the Americans, meaning for the United States, and from then on many, many incidents
01:35we have lived in our region.
01:37Was very interesting security in the morning when the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin
01:46Netanyahu, was doing his speech.
01:48The highlight of his speech was not what he said, was that at the very moment that he
01:54stands next to the podium, most of the delegations, a lot of delegations, standed up and left
02:04the room.
02:05It was a very clear sign, was very representative of what's going on since the beginning of
02:11this General Assembly.
02:13The applause, the applauding that we've seen and witnessed and heard when the Palestinian
02:21delegation took over, and the repudiation, the general repudiation of the international
02:27community against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
02:31Earlier in the morning also the members of the group of the Friends in Defense of the
02:41Charter of the United Nations met, and there were about 18 members of that group, and also
02:49they put emphasis that at the very beginning there was presided by the foreign minister
02:59of Venezuela, Ivan Hill, who said that the case of the genocide in Gaza was the confirmation
03:09of the lack of strength for the strengthening that it doesn't have the United Nations that
03:17they don't have the force, the strength to stop the genocide.
03:22So far that has been the highlights of the morning.
03:26In the afternoon there are continued some of the speeches, and we are here to bring
03:30you everything that's going on in this 79th General Assembly at the United Nations.
03:37We get back to you now.