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(CNN Spanish) -
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, delivered a speech before the United Nations Security Council in which he spoke about migration and the fight against corruption and criticized the distribution of covid-19 vaccines to through Covax and even to the UN itself.
Here are five key phrases.
"It would be hypocritical to ignore that the main problem on the planet is corruption"
The Mexican president began his address to the Security Council "describing" the different "expressions" that corruption takes today, among which he named "the neoliberal model that privatizes profits and encourages the looting of natural resources", "which courts punish those who do not have to buy their innocence "and" the impunity of those who overlap and hide illicit funds. "
"It would be hypocritical to ignore that the main problem on the planet is corruption in all its dimensions, political, moral, economic, legal, fiscal and financial," said López Obrador, affirming that corruption is precisely the main cause of inequality poverty , frustration, violence and migration.
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"The Covax mechanism has barely distributed 6%" of vaccines
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The president also highlighted the gap in the distribution of covid-19 vaccines in the world: "While private pharmaceutical companies have sold 94% of vaccines, the Covax mechanism, created by the UN for poor countries, has barely distributed the 6% ".
And he said that this is a "painful and resounding failure."
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"For the good of all, first the poor"
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López Obrador affirmed that in Mexico they have "applied the formula of banishing corruption" with "the criterion that, for the good of all, the poor come first."
He added that "peace is the fruit of justice" and that is why the "basic solution" is to end unemployment, promote the incorporation of young people into education and employment, avoid social decomposition and protect moral values.
The president affirmed that "in Mexico it could take time to pacify the country, but the safest formula is to attend to the fund, as we are doing."
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"That migration is optional and not forced"
He said that Mexico is addressing the migratory phenomenon under the same criteria because "the fundamental actions are not coercive" but those that "incorporate all people to study, work, health and well-being in the places where they were born or where they reside in such a way that they are not forced to leave their villages due to hunger or violence and only those who wish to emigrate ".
This, so that "migration is optional and not forced," according to the president, "that it is an individual decision and not a phenomenon of demographic proportions."
He said that he proposed to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to apply two programs that are being carried out in the state of Chiapas, which promote productive and social activities such as, for example, the planting of fruit and timber trees.
López Obrador said that if these actions were implemented in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador this would lead to "some 330,000 people remaining in their countries at risk of migrating due to lack of work."
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May the UN "wake up from its slumber"
The president said that these proposals must be applied by the United Nations to get to the bottom of the problems of poor countries.
"It is necessary that the most relevant body of the international community wake up from its lethargy, and get out of routine, formalism, reform itself and denounce and fight corruption in the world," said López Obrador.
And he called on the UN to fight inequality and social unrest with more determination, leadership and leadership.
The head of the Mexican state said that his government would propose a global plan of fraternity and welfare before the General Assembly of the United Nations to benefit the poorest in the world.
López Obrador stressed that "never in the history of this organization has anything substantial been done to benefit the poor, but it is never too late."
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