00:04The general debate of the 81st United Nations General Assembly kicked off in New York this
00:08Tuesday on the central theme of restoring trust in light of questions about the international
00:13body's effectiveness and a lack of funding. Our colleague Jorge Estoso is in the city and has
00:20all the information regarding these first speeches that have been given in this first
00:25day of debate. Welcome, Jorge, to From the South.
00:35Well, there's a very important morning here at the United Nations because the messages were pretty strong.
00:44We're talking the opening of the general debate. Day one, presentation by the Secretary General.
00:54We are talking Antonio Guterres, who denounced that they are pushing, and basically he's saying
01:02Israel is pushing the UN not to be able to perform its duties at the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli
01:12forces
01:12even attack the representatives of the UN, not only a genocide of Palestinians, but also it's not
01:22letting the UN perform the role to promote peace. That was a message from the Secretary General.
01:30After that, Lula was also very clear to defend sovereignty, and he indicates that President Trump is most
01:41definitely interfering in the coming process of presidential elections in about a few weeks. We're talking about
01:51a few weeks ago on October the 4th, and he said, we have evidence that has been interference from President
01:59Trump on that. In that case, they say,
02:01please let your hands off Brazil. You can run your country, but you cannot different other countries, was mentioned by
02:13Lula.
02:13And then the following spokesperson was President Trump, and he was defending, defending his war against Iran. He was against
02:27denying that the climate crisis is real. Again, as he did it in the past, he didn't using these words,
02:38but it's the same
02:38follow-up question that he has said before, that climate change and climate crisis is a Chinese hoax. Well, he's
02:49on the same page in that sense.
02:51Also, he believes that the U.S. has the role, if you want, to attack countries that they disagree with
03:03in Latin America, and he was using once
03:07more strong words against Cuba, which Cuba has already responded, saying that Trump is using once more the lie as
03:18his tool in order to
03:20justify aggression and justify aggression and military interventions. Also, he was mentioned in some other parts of Latin America. He
03:29was also
03:30praising himself about the attack to Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife. Mostly, it was a
03:45participation that nothing new was
03:49coming in terms of the position of the U.S.
03:54It was coming before the lunch break that is still going on in the morning session, that there was a
04:03trilateral agreement between
04:05Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. to provide security to Greenland through, eventually, military presence of the U.S.
04:17Of course, President Trump is presenting that as a big success. The people of Danish and Greenland, they have much
04:28more cautious words, because Trump was mentioning that
04:35that that accord was infinite, he said, and the representatives of the other two countries or the two territories do
04:43not agree.
04:44In the morning, also, is scheduled the participation of two far-right presidents of Latin America. We are talking Jose
04:54Antonio Cass of Chile and Keiko Fujimori of Peru.
04:59And in the afternoon, it's supposed to be participating also in Mexico. So, we'll get back to you throughout the
05:07day with the latest. Now, we go back to Surios.
05:11Thank you, Jorge, for the information regarding what has transpired in these first hours of the general debate.
05:18How do you remember this, Pastor?
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