Lula asks G77+China members to avoid divisions

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvacalled on Saturday the countries of G77+China avoid “division” and justify its “demands” from richer countries in the face of the challenges of digital technology and climate transition.

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“Global governance remains asymmetric. O UNthe system Bretton Woods and the WTO They are losing credibility. We can’t divide“, declared the Brazilian president at the summit of G77+China in To Havana.

“We must reinforce our demands in the light of the room industrial Revolution“added the head of state, referring to digital technology, artificial intelligence and biotechnology.

For Lula da SilvaO “digital revolution” and the “energy transition” are “two major transformations in progress” that “they cannot be modeled by a handful of rich economies, repeating the relationship of dependence between the center and the periphery.”

“The climate emergency requires us new imperativesbut the just transition gives us opportunities”concluded the head of state.

The summit of G77+Chinaformed by a hundred countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America which represent 80% of the world’s population, began Friday in Havana.

The Group, created in 1964 by 77 countriesnow it has 134 nations. China participates as an external actor.

Representatives from a hundred countries are in To Havana participate in this extraordinary summit, whose theme is “role of science, technology and innovation” under development.

Around thirty heads of state and government traveled to Havana, including the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernándezthat of Colombia, Gustavo Pedro; that of Angola, João Lourenço; in Rwanda, Paulo Kagame; the emir of I like, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.

The secretary general of UN, António Guterres.

In his inaugural speech, the Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canelwhose country has held the rotating presidency of the group since January, called for a “change in the rules of the international economic game”, which he described as “hostile to the progress” of Southern countries.

Several speakers referred to the global inequalities highlighted by the covid-19 pandemic and the need to reduce the debt of the poorest countries to finance the climate transition.

Source: Elcomercio

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