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The Acting Pres. of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez speech on the second day of debates, which focused on the defense of multilateralism. “Throughout all these moments, humanity’s major issues, aspirations, and concerns have been a source of reflection: peace, development, equality, the climate crisis, free trade, energy security, and, more recently, artificial intelligence,” Rodriguez emphasized.
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00:00Hello Jovina, as we go live at this hour to the United Nations headquarters, Acting President
00:05Delci Rodriguez is at this moment set to address the world, to address the United Nations General
00:11Assembly.
00:13Let's listen to her statements.
00:16Your Excellences, Mr. President of the 81st session of the General Assembly, I'm sorry,
00:28heads of delegations, I've been in this stage several times in my life as a public officer,
00:35first as a foreign minister, then as executive vice president, and now as acting president
00:40of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
00:44In all these times, it's been a reason for reflection on all the concerns of humanity,
00:54peace, development, equality, climate crisis, free trade, energy security, and more recently,
01:08artificial intelligence.
01:10On these challenges, Venezuela has always kept and still keeps very clear guidelines.
01:18It's first or commitment to peace and rejection of violence.
01:24May understanding and dialogue prevail over conflict.
01:28We firmly believe in the power of understanding and dialogue.
01:33Venezuela knows today what it means to raise her children from the debris.
01:42And we extend our deepest solidarity with all the peoples who are suffering from war.
01:47And we reaffirm undoubtedly that peace, a fair, lasting, and dignified peace for all parties,
01:56is not a naive aspiration, but the only truly humane solution to inclusive development with social justice,
02:07to mitigate poverty, and alleviate the suffering of hundreds of millions of people, mainly concentrated in the global south.
02:17We know that sanctions undermine economic, financial freedoms, and they delay human development.
02:26Third, we believe in the respect for the rights of nature as the sole way to consecrate human life.
02:34Fourth, likewise, the institutional failure of global trade is evident,
02:43because no nation can prevail under supernatural schemes that don't foster local industries.
02:56Fifth, on the other hand, international stability requires us to resolve the energy dilemma,
03:03to guarantee the safety in the supply and affordable prices and environmental safety.
03:14Promoting forced decarbonization programs is a direct threat to food security, employment, and production.
03:24We need to avoid industrial collapses and unsustainable costs of energy.
03:32Energy security is done or becomes necessary for the sustenance of international trade and economy and development.
03:41Undoubtedly, Venezuela plays a very important role in this international formula.
03:50I would like to highlight the recent bi-national agreement of the United States and Venezuela
03:58as one of the greatest ones that has ever been under sign and will contribute to the development of the
04:04energy of the hemisphere and international trade.
04:07Sixth, I would like to mention artificial intelligence, which supposes a true technological revolution.
04:17We are amidst a landmark of the transformation of humanity, which, when put correctly, will mean unprecedented development in healthcare,
04:28environment, production processes, and the general lives of human beings.
04:34We are amidst governments, governments, technological sectors, the scientific community.
04:39We have an enormous responsibility to not deviate the constructive power of AI away from the citizens' rights.
04:57And, in this space, the headquarters of international law, to reaffirmation of the historic rights of Venezuela on the Guayana
05:09Esequiba.
05:11And, the calling for the Co-operative Republic of Guyana to resolve and go back to negotiations as was ordered
05:20by the Geneva agreement.
05:22The agreements that are the longest lasting are the ones that come from bilateral negotiations
05:29instead of external organizations.
05:32For those who ask which side is Venezuela on, those are our guidelines and references.
05:40We have but one side, the side of the citizens of the world that want happiness, development
05:48and freedom.
05:49Much is said about Venezuela.
05:51Many people have opinions about Venezuela.
05:55Some try to interfere in the affairs of Venezuela.
06:00I am going to talk to you about a Venezuela whose national life has been affected by a
06:08political coexistence crisis that disturbed our national life and our interactions with
06:14the world.
06:17Interests that were against the common being of Venezuelans were at play.
06:23We have lived through two important painful trials as our lives as a nation.
06:32One was derived from the asphyxiation of the internal political life and the confrontation with the
06:40United States of America.
06:42And another one came from the fierceness of nature, the double earthquake of June 24th.
06:50Despite these important blows of life, as Cesar Vallejo, a poet, will say, for Venezuelans, today Venezuela is reborn.
07:01And she's reborn through the attitude that the people have assumed in these moments, the rebirth of a political relation
07:14based on diplomacy and dialogue.
07:16That's why Venezuela wants, with the United States and all our neighbors and all the countries of our continent and
07:23the international community, we want to rebuild and have relations based on cooperation, respect and equal ground.
07:32And on this 81st session of the General Assembly, I would like to thank President Trump and his government for
07:42his disposition to having diplomatic and cooperation relationships with Venezuela.
07:48The last time that two presidents from the United States and Venezuela met was in 2009.
07:54Today, we are working hard to breach the existing differences and to pave the way for the energy relations, security
08:10and the common fight against transnational crime and economic cooperation for the benefit of both peoples and our countries.
08:19On the other hand, on the other hand, on the other hand, on the other hand, the material, moral and
08:22spiritual reconstruction of our homeland, which was scorched by a devastating national disaster.
08:31I would like to thank all the countries from America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, as well as the
08:38entire United Nations system, which lent a hand to the Venezuelan people during the darkest hours caused by the double
08:47earthquake.
08:47That is when we felt the true founding spirit of this organization.
08:54Today, I stand before this assembly as just another daughter of Venezuela to present the aspirations of a country that
09:03wants to build its own destiny after political conflicts amid an economic blockade that impacted our development, inclusion and equality
09:14model.
09:15For so long, for so long, we were a divided nation in several trenches where the color of a party's
09:23flag was heavier than the common surname that we all have, which is Venezuelans.
09:30This stage needs to end so that we can start a new political time based on truth, justice and the
09:39capacity to look forward together and to find in political dialogue, respectful political dialogue, a true space to solve the
09:50differences that we have as Venezuelans, always seeking a favorable horizon for our country.
09:59Venezuela.
10:00Venezuela, I am pleased to say that Venezuela is going through a democratic transformation process, an orderly, institutional and verifiable
10:10process to build a freer country for all, which is also more prosperous and more reconciled with itself.
10:19Venezuela.
10:20Venezuela, a political, political, political, political, political, political, economic, spiritual, and spiritual change process with structural reforms for the rebirth
10:28of Venezuela, our nation and our people.
10:33We are talking about the reconstruction of a country where nobody has to win by not recognizing the other, because
10:41everyone, especially the young people who are starting their political lives, we all are Venezuela.
10:46We need to look forward to a Venezuela with a political class that is deeply committed
10:55to national interests above anything else and is not kidnapped by media algorithms.
11:01I know Venezuela very well, and I thank God for the opportunity that he's given me to
11:08know the institutional spaces in different sectors of public life. I know where the doors
11:17that need to be open are for the deep transformation of Venezuela and for the building and the laying
11:25of new foundations for an economy that's going to be at the service of the country with full
11:32justice for all, regardless of political and economic class, and equality as our liberating
11:42fathers in Simon Bolivar said. I want from the rubble of the vision, I want us to lay the
11:51foundations of a living, deeply spiritual and peaceful nation, peaceful with itself and peaceful
11:58with a world that day by day, regretfully, we see less integrated. History has shown us
12:07that the most solid democratic transitions of the contemporary world didn't come from rupture,
12:15but from transformation firmly introduced from the institutions themselves. And that is the
12:21inspiration, not the reproduction of a foreign or past history, but learning from a universal
12:29idea. Law can pave the way for a better legal framework. A nation is not rebirthed by only rebuilding
12:42buildings, but also rebuilding the trust in its institution. That is why I want to announce and
12:47affirm precisely in front of you the basis of this process. First, a legal orderly reformation.
12:58We have undertaken an institutional revision process to strengthen the functioning of the
13:04state and give legal security not only for investors, national and international investors,
13:10not only the one that they need, but also the one that our citizens need, for them not to feel
13:19pushed and overtaken by an arbitrary power, but the power to be at the service of them. The reformation
13:24of justice and its systems is undeliable. Secondly, the responsible and full exercise of politics. Venezuela
13:33shall guarantee real conditions for all the political forces of the country. Democracy is not measured by the
13:44existence of elections. Democracy is measured in the quality of the competition that precedes those elections.
13:57elections need to be a solution, not a generation, not a generator of unsolvable conflicts. I want to say this
14:05very clearly. In Venezuela, there will be elections. And in that direction, we have started political dialogue
14:15with opposition sectors, which are going to reach a process that gives equal conditions for all. The Venezuelan
14:22people with its ancestral wisdom shall determine the right moment and its institutions are going to be ready to
14:32guarantee an inclusive and transparent process. A nation that is not submitted to economic restrictions of any kind so that
14:43their
14:44right to development is guaranteed. The rest and the spasms reactions from within and without are a part of the
14:54spectacle that Venezuelans don't want to witness anymore. Venezuela needs to abandon the path that led extremism and
15:07democracies to impose itself on peaceful and democratic coexistence. And that's where I ask for the
15:15accompaniment of the international community so that they can back up in good will the changes that Venezuela needs from
15:21the
15:22respect to the self-determination of my country. Venezuela wants to breathe freely, exercise its rights as a sovereign nation
15:31with no kind of
15:32the United States in the country. Venezuela is an admirable and respected Venezuelan. I am an admirable and respected
15:38Venezuelan. I come to take from here a historical responsibility. The one of leading Venezuela from a stage or a
15:48time of
15:49uncertainty and conflict to a stage of full democracy recognized by its own people and the world. A new stage
15:56of well-being for the
15:58rebirth of Venezuela. To my beloved people, I tell you this is not the end of a speech,
16:06this is the beginning of a commitment. To the international community, I say, Venezuela
16:11is ready to walk hand in hand with those who believe in a respectful international relation
16:19without meddling or prejudice. To the young people who have grown up seeing a fractured country
16:28and who many times decided to leave seeking what they couldn't find in Venezuela, I tell
16:35you it's worth it to believe again. This is a moment to build a country that many people
16:40want to come back to and not only the country from which many people wanted to depart. And
16:48to every Venezuelan that today amidst the material or human losses left by the earthquakes,
16:56if you're wondering if it's worth it to keep standing, I tell you, yes, the strength of
17:02our people is not measured on the easy moments, but in moments like this. From every catastrophe
17:09that we have lived as a nation, we've always come out more united than we were before it
17:14happened. Venezuelans, I do not promise an easy path. The recovery of the country shall
17:21take a while. The reconstruction of the national soul shall be our priority. We will walk hand
17:28hand as one nation that decided after the pain to choose hope. May this political moment and
17:37geopolitical moment remain in history as a day in which we decided to rise together to build the
17:44reborn, rebirth of Venezuela. December 16th shall be the 200th anniversary of the anguished call of Simon
17:57Bolivar, Venezuela, to save it from dissolution and civil war. He said, Venezuelans, you shall be
18:06asked so that you may say where, when and in which time you want to celebrate the great national convention.
18:15And that's where you're going to celebrate your omnipotence and your fundamental laws. Only you know your law and the
18:25owner of your destiny, but not one of the
18:27powerful man, not a party, not a faction, but the people, the sovereign. Not a mighty one, not a party,
18:35not a faction. Let us all together work towards the rebirth of a prosperous land that our children deserve. God
18:46bless Venezuela and may the unity of its people from here on in be our biggest flag. That we can
18:52show the world so we can also show the world what the good,
18:56dignified, dignified, and historically apt Venezuelans have to move forward. Thank you very much.
19:08We were listening at this hour to acting president Delcy Rodriguez at the United Nations General Assembly in his 81st
19:18session, a milestone, a diplomatic milestone for Venezuela at this moment in a year that has been marked by two
19:28catastrophes as the acting president,
19:30president Delcy Rodriguez was informed, one that was derived by the strangulation of political, of internal policies and also by
19:38also the pressures imposed on the nation by the United States. And that was one of the catastrophes she mentioned.
19:45And the second one was made and caused by the power of nature. So acting president was delivered a very
19:52strong message for the world to listen.
19:55And that Venezuela is at this moment, that Venezuela is at this moment working in a new path, in a
19:59new moment that came from pain towards hope, that is also going to be built, as the president said, by
20:06all the people of Venezuela, regardless of their belief, that is also taking place in a context in which the
20:13nation is not just rebuilding after these back-to-back powerful earthquakes that struck the nation on June 24th.
20:20It is not a moment as well.
20:22It is not a moment as well. It is a moment as well to rebuild their institutions, she said. That
20:30is why Venezuela is pursuing a reform of the justice system, as acting president said, to also have the plain
20:38exercise of political, to guarantee the plain exercise of political forces.
20:44She was addressing as well that democracy is measured as well by the quality of the process that precedes election.
20:52And in that matter, she said Venezuela is going to have elections that is also the priority for the country
21:00to begin to begin working together towards a path of coexistence, of respectful dialogue, to prepare the nation for those
21:11upcoming elections.
21:13She was saying as well. Venezuela also is longing as well to be respected and is going to be working
21:22side by side to every other nation that also respects international law, that respects as well the sovereignty of other
21:30nations.
21:30Venezuela is also going to guarantee the well-being of its people working together. And also she made a message,
21:39she addressed a message to the younger generations of Venezuelans that left the country.
21:45Now we are going to make a contact with our colleague Jorge Gestoso. He is in New York City and
21:52has the latest updates of everything that is happening in the United Nations at this hour. Go ahead, Gestoso.
21:58Let me know that it may be.
22:00Precisely it was very important to me and to be here at the United Nations in New York and hear
22:07the acting president,inizi Rodríguez, addressing the General Assembly.
22:13It was a very compelling message, compelling presentation in which acting president Delcey Rodriguez committed herself, committed the country, committed
22:27her government to a new era and renewal era, a new respect, a new juridical order and the commitment to
22:39proceed to general elections.
22:42An invitation to grow all the parts together, an invitation to the international community to help, not only after the
22:54earthquake, and mostly she thanked all the help that she received, but mostly she said that there are new elements
23:05that she is trying to put together.
23:07That has been an extremely difficult time that Venezuela went through, and not only because of the earthquake, without mentioning,
23:17she was making reference on 27 years on non-stop hybrid war that most definitely all the analysts realized that
23:28was taking place in Venezuela.
23:31And she was mentioning the commitment, the resilience of the people of Venezuela, the idea to go further, the idea
23:40that have all the elements to fight for development, for fighting inequality, to bring prosperity to the country,
23:49to share with other parts of the country, to share with other parts of the world, what is their vision,
23:54and expecting from other parts of the world, their help to build together this new era, the renascimento.
24:02She was mentioning, she was mentioning Venezuela was being warned again.
24:07It was a very discreet, it was a very discreet, very diplomatic way to address all the issues that Venezuela
24:16had gone through, and most definitely someone who was knowing very well, she said,
24:23I am a Venezuelan who knows inside and out how this country is and has been, and most definitely it
24:32was an invitation to the US to work together in the project of building the new Venezuela.
24:38It was most definitely a presentation that is going to have a lot of people impressed and a lot of
24:48people knowing more about what the country has gone through and what it will expect from the future.
24:55So, it was very positive what we hear, the immediate reaction after the presentation was the second time as in
25:07person that she addressed the General Assembly.
25:10It was in 2016, the last time as Vice President in person, and today, 10 years later, she's coming as
25:19President, as Acting President to address again the Assembly.
25:23We'll get back to you now.
25:26We were speaking about the significance of this diplomatic milestone that Venezuela has reached today with the presence, with the
25:34words of Acting President Delcy Rodriguez
25:37before the international community at the heart of the United States and in a new moment for Venezuela.
25:44Venezuela, as our interview was saying, it is a moment of hope, of a new moment of reconstruction, of recognizance
25:55as well, of peaceful coexistence for the country after such a devastating 2026 for the nation.
26:03After all of this information, we have come to the end of this special moment that we were also informing
26:13on everything that was happening and also related, everything related to the address of Acting President Delcy Rodriguez.
26:20Our invitation now is for you to stay tuned with Telesutely English to keep informed on everything that is happening
26:25at the United Nations General Assembly.
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