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🇪🇷 Eritrea - Foreign Minister Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA | United Nations | YouTubeToText
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The speech argues that historical and contemporary global systems, including those established by the League of Nations and the United Nations, have failed to achieve peace and prosperity due to underlying structures of domination, plunder, and injustice, particularly evident in economic disparities and the exploitation of underdeveloped nations.
I now give the floor to his excellency
Osman Sali Moad, Minister for Foreign
Good morning
your Excellency Miss Analina Borbach,
President of the ETH session of the
United Nation General Assembly.
Your Excellency
Antonio Gutirez, Secretary General of
the United Nation.
Honorable heads of delegation,
distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,
gentlemen,
Madame President,
allow me to join previous speakers to
congratulate your excellency for your election
election
to the presidency of the 8th session of
the United Nations General Assembly.
During the 79th session of the United
Nations assemb last year, I had briefly
reflected as a backdrop and for purposes
of historical reference to dwell on
humanity's collective trajectory in the
past 100 years.
In this regard, the defining features of
this century can be summed up by failure
of the League of Nations
established in the aftermath of the
First World War to guarantee the lofty
objectives of peace, economic growth and
prosperity for humanity as a whole.
Opportunities lost even after the United
Nation was subsequently formed in 1945
and until the end of the cold war and reckless
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and dangerous trends set in motion in
the prevalent unipolar world order in
the last 30 years. As we all agree, the
League of Nations and the United Nation
were originally conceived as viable
architectures of global governance to
advance the pronounced lofty objectives
that we all cherish.
In this respect and at a time when
humanity is aspiring for a transition
from the old defunct global order to a
new one, the overarching quest must
revolve around finding outside
tangential ideological agreements
in solutions to fundamental and
outstanding problems that our global
community continues to grapple with.
Economic injustice has remained the
primary challenge for mankind and all
the peoples as a whole since ancient
times. From primitive social systems to
the op to the epox of slavery and colonization
colonization
all the way until our contemporary times
in a developed 21st century.
The p the prenal challenges stem from
modalities of wealth creation and
accumulation and notably in relation to
wealths and income sharing.
The fact is past and present global
systems are broadly rooted on monopoly
plunder and desit domination and attend
attendant policies crafted to that end.
military power that is garnered and
military assaults unleashed are indeed
mere tools of domination and plunder.
Similarly, various economic and
financial architectures are essentially
iniated to bolster the objectives of
domination and blunder.
Policies formulated and operations
undertaken to expand the spheres of
influence are likewise sheer means of
domination and plunder.
Subtle corruption con constitutes
another means of domination and plunder. We
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wars, conflicts and crisis are also
stocked and aggravated for the sole
purposes of domination and plunder.
Tools of propaganda and deception are
weaponized for similar objectives.
Ladies and gentlemen, in the event the
cardinal challenge is how to bring about
a new global order that promotes justice
and fairness to supplant prevailing
global governance.
Architecture whose defining contours
remain domination, plunder, desit and reception.
reception. repression.
repression.
Spiraling oppositions underway in
various parts of our world, including in
the developed and industrialized regions
through expansive popular demonstrations
against dire economic trends and
debilitating debt anchored by
governments are only the tip of the iceberg.
iceberg.
But what is extremely preoccupying
is the appalling economic situation in
the underdeveloped countries and more
specifically in the marginalized African
continent. Although the details can be
assessed assessed on a casebyase basis,
most of Africa's economy remain primitive.
primitive.
Africa remains a continent where raw
materials are exported to the so-called
developed economies for nominal prices
in which manufactured finished products
are imported at highly inflated prices
where the economies are afflicted by
huge losses in job opportunities in
which human capital and meager
professional and skilled manpower are
drained due to migration and brain drain.
drain.
Where preciding regimes lavishly,
West borrowed money but cynically flown
semblance of progress while burdened by
mounting debt.
Are embroiled in corruption
and political servitude to external
forces are afflicted by instability due
to domestic polarization
and endemic crisis. and where they fa
they face rapid population growth as
well as imminent challenges and
disasters. The scenario is very bleak indeed.
indeed.
Why was mankind's mission in the new
century unsuccessful?
The cherished mission does not contain
novel and sophisticated inventions or
ideological and philosophical
dimensions. The values of the missions
invoked and that underpinned the
struggle during the epochs of slavery
have not changed whatsoever in this
so-called new 20th century. The
aspiration of mankind are one to fairly
own their economic resources and the
frees of their work and march on a
sustainable path of generational
progress and prosperity by accumulating wealths.
wealths.
Two, to secure peace and stability in
order to guarantee prosperity and
economic growth. Three, to ensure
prevalence of fairness and justice as
vital vital prerequisites for peace and stability.
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