09/22/2020 - 18:46
Clarín.com
Politics
Alberto Fernández delivered his speech to the
United Nations General Assembly
from 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday
, which is held virtually due to the coronavirus.
Given this modality, the President issued a message of about 15 minutes that was recorded on Sunday.
In his speech, he stated that the coronavirus vaccine should be considered "a global public good, accessible to all nations."
"Today we are experiencing a health crisis of planetary dimensions that invite us to a new beginning. Pope Francis calls on all of us, especially the leaders gathered on this occasion, to think about how to come out of this crisis better and not worse," Fernández said. .
And he remarked: "I come to ratify a call to the whole world to recreate a multilateralism based on our solidarity. It is not the time to globalize indifference but to globalize solidarity in multiple dimensions."
"We need a United Nations 4.0 with its founding values intact," said the President, who said that this pandemic "revealed us to be fragile and has recreated the need to create bridges between people, nations, regions."
In this regard, he emphasized that "if we are being able to manufacture artificial respirators, we must be able to dream and build non-artificial respirators for the post-pandemic time."
"If we are joining the efforts of doctors, researchers, investors to discover a vaccine that prevents covid-19, we have to be able to dream and build a vaccine against social injustice, environmental depredation, discrimination in all its forms," he added. .
Regarding the AMIA, he remarked: "26 years after the attack on the AMIA headquarters, I want to continue the policy started in this area in 2003 and require the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with the Argentine judicial authorities to advance in the investigation of said attack ".
And he added: "We also ask the international community to fill in the requests contained in Interpol's red cards in the event of the presence of a defendant in their territories, something that Argentina never stopped claiming."
It is
the first time
that Fernández participates in a UN meeting since he assumed the leadership of the Executive Branch.
Fernández is expected to demand dialogue and cooperation to overcome the coronavirus pandemic, highlight the preaching of Pope Francis to recreate a multilateralism based on solidarity and highlight the agreement reached by Argentina on the foreign debt.
The president's message is issued in the midst of a difficult national panorama, either due to the pandemic or in financial matters.
On the one hand, with more than
640,000 covid positives in the country and more than 13,000 deaths, according to the morning report on Tuesday.
On the other hand, the Government -after restructuring the debt with private bondholders- has presented in Congress the 2021 Budget in which it foresees an inflation of 29% and a currency is estimated at $ 102.40 for December of next year .
Hours after that, the official announcement was made that 35% will be added to the official exchange rate on Profits or Personal Assets in addition to the already existing Country Tax (30% surcharge).
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