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| Brazilian President Luis Ignácio Lula da Silva addressed the UN General Assembly, saying anti-democratic forces are trying to subjugate institutions and stifle freedoms. | ||
| He also talks about former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was found guilty by Brazil's Supreme Court and sentenced to 27 years in prison after being convicted of plotting a coup to stay in power following his 2022 election defeat. | ||
| By this, the Assembly will hear an address by His Excellency Luis Ináciola da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil. | ||
| I request the protocol to escort His Excellency and invite him to address the assembly. | ||
| Madam President of the General Assembly, Annalena Berboucki, Mr. Secretary-General António Guterres, dear heads of state and government, and representatives of the member states gathered here. | ||
| This should be a time to celebrate the United Nations. | ||
| Created at the end of the war, the UN symbolizes the highest expression of the aspiration for peace and prosperity. | ||
| Today, however, the ideals that inspired its founders in San Francisco are under threat as never before in their history. | ||
| Multilateralism is at a new crossroads. | ||
| The organization's authority is in check. | ||
| We are witnessing the consolidation of an international order marked by repeated concessions to power play. | ||
| Attacks on sovereignty, arbitrary sanctions, and unilateral interventions are becoming the rule. | ||
| There is a clear parallel between the multilateralism crisis and the weakening of democracy. | ||
| Authoritarianism is strengthened when we fail to act in the face of arbitrary acts. | ||
| When the international society falters in defending peace, sovereignty, and the rule of law, the consequences are tragic throughout the world. | ||
| Anti-democratic forces are trying to subjugate institutions and stifle freedoms. | ||
| They worship violence, praise ignorance, act as physical and digital militias, and restrict the press. | ||
| Eva under an unprecedented attack, Brazil chose to resist and defend its democracy, regained 40 years ago by its people after two decades of dictatorial governments. | ||
| There is no justification for unilateral and arbitrary measures against our institutions and our economy. | ||
| The aggression against the independence of the judiciary branch of power is unacceptable. | ||
| This interference in domestic affairs is aided by a subservient far-right who is nostalgic of past hegemonies. | ||
| False patriots plan and publicly promote actions against Brazil. | ||
| Peace cannot be achieved with impunity. | ||
| A few days ago, and for the first time in 525 years of our history, a former head of state was convicted of attacking the democratic rule of law. | ||
| He was investigated, indicted, trialed, and held accountable for his actions in a meticulous process. | ||
| He has the right to defend himself for security, a prerogative that dictatorships deny to their victims. | ||
| Before the eyes of the world, Brazil sent a message to all aspiring autocrats and those who support them. | ||
| democracy, our sovereignty are non-negotiable. | ||
| We will continue as an independent nation and as a people free from any type of guardianship. | ||
| Sound democracies go beyond the electoral retro. | ||
| Its strength presupposes the reduction of inequalities, the guarantee of the most basic rights, food, safety, work, housing, education, and health. | ||
| Democracy fails when women earn less than men or die at the hands of partners and family members. | ||
| It loses when it closes its doors and blames migrants for the world's ills. | ||
| Poverty is as much an enemy of democracy as extremism. | ||
| Therefore, we were proud to receive confirmation from FAO that Brazil has once again left the hunger map in this year 2025. | ||
| But in the world, there are still 670 million hungry people and about 2.3 billion face food insecurity. | ||
| The only war of which everyone can emerge if victorious is the one we wage against hunger and poverty. | ||
| This is the goal of the global alliance we launched at the G20 and which has the support of 103 countries. | ||
| The international community needs to revise its priorities, reduce arms spending and increase development aid, relieve the surface of the foreign debt of the poorest countries, above all African nations, and set minimum global tax standards so that the super rich pay more taxes than workers. | ||
| Democracy is also measured by the ability to protect families and the childhood. | ||
| Digital platforms offer possibilities for us to come together in ways we never imagined. | ||
| But they have been used for sowing intolerance, misogyny, xenophobia, and misinformation. | ||
| The Internet cannot be a land of lawlessness. | ||
| It's up to governments to protect the most vulnerable. | ||
| Regulating does not mean restraining freedom of expression. | ||
| It's about ensuring that what is already illegal in the real world is treated the way in the virtual environment. | ||
| Attacks on regulation serve to cover up hidden interests and provide shelter for crimes such as fraud, human trafficking, pedophilia, and attacks against democracy. | ||
| The Brazilian parliament was right to rush this to address this issue. | ||
| Last week, I proudly enacted one of the world's most advanced laws for the protection of children and adolescents in the digital environment. | ||
| Also, we sent draft bills to the national congress to foster competition and digital markets and to encourage the installation of sustainable data centers to mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence. | ||
| We are committed to building multilateral governance in line with the Global Digital Compact that was approved in this plenary last year. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, Your Excellencies, in Latin America and the Caribbean, we are experiencing a time of growing polarization and instability. | ||
| Maintaining the region as a zone of peace is and was our priority. | ||
| We are a continent free of weapons of mass destruction without ethnic or religious conflicts. | ||
| The comparison between crime and terrorism is worrying. | ||
| The most effective way to combat drug trafficking is to cooperate to suppress money laundering and limit arms trade. | ||
| Using lethal force in situations that do not constitute armed conflict is tantamount to executing people without trial. | ||
| Other parts of the planet have already witnessed interventions that cause greater damage than intended with serious humanitarian consequences. | ||
| The path to dialogue must not be closed in Venezuela. | ||
| Haiti has the right to a violence-free future, and it is unacceptable that Cuba be listed as a country that sponsors terrorism. | ||
| In the conflict in Ukraine, in the conflict in Ukraine, we all already know that there will be no military solution. | ||
| The recent meeting in Alaska raised hopes for a negotiated way out. | ||
| It's necessary to pave the way for a realistic solution. | ||
| This implies taking into account the legitimate security concerns of all parties. | ||
| The African Initiative and the Friends for Peace group created by China and Brazil can help promote dialogue and a diplomatic solution. | ||
| No situation is more emblematic of the disproportionate and illegal use of force than the one occurring in Palestine. | ||
| The terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas are indefensible from any angle, but nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the ongoing genocide in Gaza. | ||
| There, under tons of rubble, are buried tens of thousands of innocent women and children. | ||
| There, we can see that international humanitarian law and the myth of ethical exceptionalism of the West are also being buried there. | ||
| This massacre would not have happened without the complicity of those who could have prevented it. | ||
| In Gaza, hunger is used as a weapon of war, and the forced displacement of populations goes unpunished. | ||
| I express my admiration to the Jews who inside and outside Israel oppose this collective punishment. | ||
| The Palestinian people are at risk of disappearing. | ||
| They will only survive with an independent state integrated to the international community. | ||
| This is the solution defended by more than 150 UN members, reaffirmed yesterday here in this very plenary, but bared by a single veto. | ||
| It is regrettable that President Mahmoud Abbas was prevented by the host country from occupying the Palestinian bench at this historical moment. | ||
| the spread of this conflict to lebanon syria iran qatar is fueling an unprecedented arms built up Madam President, bombs and nuclear weapons will not protect us from the climate crisis. | ||
| The year of 24 was the warmest already registered. | ||
| COP30 in the city of Berlin, Brazil, were the cope of truth. | ||
| It will be the time for world leaders to prove the seriousness of their commitment to the planet. | ||
| Without a complete picture of the NDC's nationally determined contributions, we were walking blindfolded towards the abyss. | ||
| Brazil has committed to reducing its emissions by 59 and 67 percent, covering all greenhouses, gases, and all sectors of the economy. | ||
| Developing nations face climate change while grappling with other challenges. | ||
| Meanwhile, rich countries enjoy a standard of living reached at the expense of 200 years of greenhouse gas emissions, demanding greater ambition and greater access to resources and technology. | ||
| It's not a matter of charity, but of justice. | ||
| The race for critical minerals essential for energy transition cannot reproduce the predatory and asymmetrical logic that has characterized recent centuries. | ||
| In Berlin City, the world will learn about the reality of the Amazon. | ||
| Brazil has already reduced deforestation by half in the region in the last two years. | ||
| Eradicating it requires ensuring decent living conditions for its millions of inhabitants. | ||
| Promoting sustainable development is the objective of the tropical forest forever. | ||
| You can watch this program in its entirety if you go to our website, c-span.org. | ||
| We're going to leave it here and take you live to remarks by Texas Governor Greg Abbott following the shooting at a Dallas immigration facility. | ||
| Inspiring to see the great Adrián Cruz. | ||
| And Governor, I have to call an audible immediately. | ||
| And when they say you're the jobs governor... | ||
| You know what? | ||
| What occurred to me is you have more governor's cups than Tom Brady has Super Bowl championships. | ||
| That's a fact. | ||
| And Brady's stuck at seven, and you're not done at 13. | ||
| And I also was going to start in a more general way, but then yesterday happened. | ||
| The state, could you talk a little bit about the EY Lilly, $6.5 billion, and then in Abilene, Texas, the nerve center of a $1 trillion total investment? | ||
| It's phenomenal. | ||
| This is stereotypical of just another day in Texas. | ||
| So, for those who don't know what it was talking about, let me put it under this umbrella. | ||
| One thing that Texas has strive to achieve over the past decades is to make sure that it grows more and more diversified. | ||
| And you see results like what happened yesterday be a part of achieving that diversification. | ||
| I'll submit to you: there's no state in the United States that has a more diversified economy. | ||
| What that means is, regardless of what's going to happen, there could be ups and downs in the oil and gas sector. | ||
| For example, if you follow the price of oil, it's kind of gone down right now. |