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Alberto Fernández

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first: 2020-09-24
most recent: 2023-09-24
sittings or episodes: 4
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“May no one stray from the path of justice and development forever. We are convinced that it is a noble objective that is valid for individuals and peoples alike. But let us not turn it into a dead letter. When that happens, repentance serves no use. It does not repair damaged lives and lives without a future; much less does it restore lives lost.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We have proposed to the United Kingdom a renewed bilateral agenda on the South Atlantic that involves a formal dialogue process that includes, of course, the issue linked to the resumption of negotiations on sovereignty. We also express our willingness to pursue the tasks involved in the identification of former combatants killed in the Islands, within the framework of the obligations arising from international humanitarian law and in order to provide a response and comfort to the families. Unfortunately, the United Kingdom has rejected our proposal. Notwithstanding. Argentina reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to redouble his efforts, within the framework of his good offices, to bring both parties closer to the negotiating table. The motto of the 2030 Agenda is “Leave no one behind”.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In accordance with the resolutions of the General Assembly and its Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the way to resolve the colonial situation of the Islands is through sovereignty negotiations between Argentina and the United Kingdom. We regret that the United Kingdom continues to refuse to resume negotiations. We question its ongoing unilateral activities of exploration and exploitation of natural resources in the disputed area, in violation of resolution 31/49. as well as its military presence in the South Atlantic, a zone of peace. Argentina maintains a firm commitment to the peaceful resolution to that anachronistic colonial situation.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Its extension over time only hurts the living conditions of its inhabitants and has led to exile for millions of Venezuelans who have left their homeland looking for a better life. I also want to reaffirm the legitimate and imprescriptible rights of sovereignty of the Argentine Republic over the Malvinas Islands. South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime area. They form an integral part of the Argentine national territory and have been illegally occupied by the United Kingdom for almost two centuries.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We also urge the international community to accompany us in our fight by refusing to receive or harbour any of the accused, even when they enjoy diplomatic immunity. We must remember that international arrest requests and Interpol red alerts have been issued against them. Argentina firmly opposes the use of unilateral coercive measures and the adoption of discriminatory trade practices. The perpetuation of the blockade against Cuba is unacceptable. Year after year, the General Assembly demands by an overwhelming majority the need to end the blockade. Likewise, we request once again the exclusion of Cuba from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor international terrorism. Similarly, the sanctions imposed by the United States on Venezuela must immediately cease.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Argentina has ratified its commitment to the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism and to most international instruments on terrorism, seeking to develop all the measures contained therein as the most effective way to end this threat. For our part, we continue to fight against impunity, investigating the attacks that we suffered in 1992. at the Israeli Embassy, and in 1994. at the AMIA headquarters, which claimed the lives of 107 people and left hundreds injured. We want those responsible for such atrocious attacks to be identified, tried and convicted. Once again, we urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with the Argentine judicial authorities to advance the investigation of the attack on AMIA.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“the different integration bodies of Latin America and the Caribbean are a heritage that the region contributes to a humankind in search of peace, cooperation and justice. Our region is facing a historic opportunity. It has the energy and food that the world demands. Our development depends on our having the ability to take advantage of those resources. We must work together to carry out infrastructure works that allow us to compete industrially from our region. Argentina condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Terrorist acts pose a threat to peace, international security and human dignity. Terrorism must be combated within the framework of the rule of law and full respect for international law.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Argentina reaffirms its commitment to gender equality and diversity as an essential condition for growth and sustainable development at the national and international levels, with a human rights approach. We have developed regulatory frameworks and public policies to promote equality for all women and diversities. Currently, our country is executing its National Plan for Equality in Diversity. As part of the integrationist vocation embodied in the South American Common Market and the Union of South American Nations, over these four years we have proposed resuming a path of integration with Latin America and the Caribbean and strengthening dialogue with all our partners through political coordination, with a solidarity and cooperative approach. As the construction of the European Union once was.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“That is how democracies are delegitimized and the crisis of representation that is generated ends up putting the institutionality of the rule of law in check. Preserving the rule of law is a shared conviction on our continent. That is why we view current events in Guatemala with concern. The international community must activate the relevant mechanisms that ensure respect for the popular choice. The climate crisis is a reality that has modified temperatures and atmospheric phenomena around the world, imposing restrictions and obstacles to development. It is imperative to resolve the problem without further delay by creating a fair, transparent and equitable multilateral environmental financing architecture, based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Faced with those crimes against humanity, our solution was not revenge but justice. Precisely, because we know the horror involved in the disappearance of 30.000 human beings. I take this opportunity to reiterate the call for adherence to the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Forced Disappearances. We need more committed States so that this crime is completely eradicated. The challenge before us is to consolidate and advance the rights agenda, which means establishing democracies with greater equity and equality among its citizens. Human rights are comprehensive and do not admit any type of regressivity. If there is regression, the cultists of authoritarianism win and hate speech proliferates.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I represent a country that this year is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its recovery of democracy — a country that has learned from its historical past to say “never again” to human rights violations and that has promoted as a State policy the right to memory, truth and justice. We are proud of these four decades of uninterrupted democracy, in which the promotion and protection of human rights have been a fundamental part of the path taken. Today UNESCO declared the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory — a clandestine detention, torture and extermination centre where the dictatorship perpetrated its greatest atrocities — a World Heritage Site. By actively preserving the memory that the deniers wish to hide, we will prevent that time of pain from being repeated.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Precisely today, as this meeting is being held, the media are reporting that Azerbaijan has launched military operations with the purpose of taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh. The international community cannot remain passive in the face of such a reality. It must act preventively to avoid new ethnic, racial, religious or political persecutions. As we have always done, we continue to demand that the parties find the sanity that calls them to peace and that the multilateral organizations recover the strength that they seem to have lost to enforce international rules. The countries of the global South have historically shared many views on the international system and on the responsibility incumbent on multilateral organizations in matters of development, global peace and security, cooperation and decolonization.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In the current situation, as we know, the impact of more than a decade of accumulated crises have come together, ranging from the effects of the financial collapse of 2008 to the war unleashed by Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory. The effects of that war are visible. In addition to the terrible consequences in humanitarian terms, the armed dispute is generating historic levels of inflation on a global scale, with a special impact on the price of food and energy. The current reality is also seeing the rise of tensions that are less addressed by public opinion, but that deeply affect international peace. As an example. I highlight Azerbaijan’s blockades in the Lachin corridor, which have been causing a humanitarian crisis that is once again punishing part of the Armenian people.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“To find a long-term solution to the problem of food security, it is crucial that there be a fairer, more transparent, more equitable and more predictable international trade system for agricultural products. We must eliminate the distortions produced by subsidies and prohibit food from being the subject of financial speculation. Both discourage the investments needed to increase production to help meet growing global demand for food. Argentina considers multilateralism to be the best tool to identify shared solutions to common problems. It reflects our vocation to act in solidarity and to cooperate in the search for collective well-being. Hegemonic proposals have served only to enhance mistrust, promote arms races and limit the possibilities of economic and scientific-technological cooperation.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Experience shows that when a people is suffocated under the eternal sentence of debt, its strength wanes, social crises are intensified and debts become uncollectible. We are facing the challenge of feeding a growing world population in critical climatic conditions. Droughts or floods, tornadoes or hail — everything affects food production and supply. We know that from our own experience. Argentina lost more than 20 per cent of its total exports due to the worst drought in the past 100 years. No less than three points of its gross domestic product were wiped out. We also know today that an international food market intoxicated by financial speculation only facilitates greater income for a few and instability and misery for millions of human beings.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is time to promote social justice in the world. The International Monetary Fund cannot raise its interest rates every time the United States Federal Reserve raises its rates to contain inflation in that country. It cannot do so. and yet it does. In that context, it is shameful that to this very day it applies surcharges to many countries that are already finding it unbearable to carry the burden of external debt. Ironically. International Monetary Fund finances Ukraine in the middle of the war. and in the midst of that war it applies surcharges to the interest it charges. That is just astounding. We need a new framework for the treatment of sovereign debt that has development with social justice as its goal.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is impossible to seek to achieve an equitable future by promoting the continuity of the same logic that has generated the inequality in which we live. International financial engineering appears abusive and unchanging. How can we achieve sustainable development without financing to help us do so? The international financial system does not evince the will to adapt to a world that wants to recover lost equity. On the contrary, it seeks only to impose the same orthodox policies that have deepened inequality and misery in the world. The global financial architecture serves only to concentrate income in the very few and to marginalize vast regions of the world. It puts its money in speculation rather than in development. It promotes cheap labour rather than the dignity of work. There is no longer time for words.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“How to address changes and harmonize interests in this new scenario in which we find ourselves is the real challenge we face. In speaking before this House. I feel obliged to express myself with absolute candour. The world’s problems demand solutions. We have already spent a great deal of time diagnosing the problems. We cannot keep talking about them while walking on a razor’s edge. The risks of perpetuating that reality are very high. We have gone halfway towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development knowing that, as the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean points out. perhaps only a quarter of the goals will be achieved that year. That inability to envision a better future sows unease in a world that wants to develop and where the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet live.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The world is undergoing a time of change. A new era is dawning while humankind is still coping with the effects of a pandemic that killed 15 million people, exposing the inequality we face. Meanwhile, the climate crisis is subjecting our planet to all kinds of inclement events. Cyclones, tornadoes, unexpected floods or extensive droughts end up affecting millions of human beings in all latitudes of the planet. All of this is happening while a war drags on. claiming more human lives and unleashing an energy and food crisis of tremendous proportions. As all those calamities are unfolding, we are witnessing an astonishing technological revolution. Robotization and the accelerated process of installation of artificial intelligence force us to rethink education, production processes and the preservation of work.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Argentina humbly calls on all the countries of the world to build a new social model that ensures prosperity through social justice.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We request that the Secretary-General renew his efforts to fulfil that request and that the United Kingdom agree to heed the call of the international community and put an end to that anachronistic colonial situation. In that context, I wish to reiterate my country’s full readiness to return to the negotiating table and seek a solution that will put an end to this long-standing sovereignty dispute. We live in a world where injustices and inequalities are increasing. At the same time, democracies are increasingly at risk, peace is crumbling and uncertainty is increasing. We have an urgent moral duty that cannot be postponed, and that is now. We must work and implement effective global agreements that eradicate hunger, drastically reduce inequalities and ensure democratic stability, peace and coexistence. Humankind is threatened.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“They are part of Argentina’s national territory and have been illegally occupied by the United Kingdom for almost 190 years. The request made through resolution 2065 (XX), of 1965, has remained in force and has been reiterated on many occasions, The United Kingdom persists in its attitude of disregarding the call to resume negotiations on the territorial dispute. Moreover, it has exacerbated the dispute by its calls for the illegal exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources in the area. It also insists on an unjustified and excessive military presence on the islands, which only brings tension to a region characterized as an area of peace and international cooperation.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We must remember that international arrest warrants and INTERPOL red notices are pending against them. Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of peace. We are working to also make it more just and equal. We know the tremendous comparative advantage that the Southern Common Market, in particular, and all of Latin America, in general, have in sustainable food production and energy supply. We have a great opportunity to develop. If we improve the quality of life of our people by creating genuine employment, we can eradicate the pockets of poverty that persist in our societies today. I wish to reaffirm the legitimate and inalienable sovereign rights of the Argentine Republic over the Malvinas Islands, South Georgia, the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Argentina condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. It must be countered in the context of the rule of law and full respect for international law. We continue to fight against impunity, investigating the attacks on the Israeli Embassy in 1992 and on the headquarters of the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) in 1994, which claimed the lives of 107 people and injured hundreds. We want those responsible for such heinous attacks to be identified, tried and ultimately sentenced. Once again, we urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with the Argentine judicial authorities to advance the investigation into the AMIA bombing. We also urge the international community to join us in our struggle by refraining from receiving or harbouring any of the accused, even if they enjoy diplomatic immunity.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In the same spirit, our country has expanded citizens’ rights by developing laws and public policies that promote the equality of women and diversity, based on an intersectoral, intercultural and human- rights approach. The much-declared social equality requires that we all have access to the advantages offered by the present. In the digital era in which we live, we believe it a priority to universalize access to information and communication technologies and to promote actions that reduce the inequality gaps seen today. The United Nations is the right place for the international community to achieve the necessary agreements to ensure the maintenance of a free, open, stable, secure and, above all, peaceful cyberspace, where hatred and violence are not fostered through anonymity.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Under the Charter of the United Nations, the only legitimate sanctions are those imposed by the Security Council to enforce its resolutions regarding the maintenance of peace and security. Argentina therefore joins the demand by the peoples of Cuba and Venezuela that the blockades suffered by those nations be lifted. I would like to thank all Member States for having entrusted Argentina with the presidency of the Human Rights Council this year. For us, the defence of human rights is part of our identity and our history. The Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo taught us to persist and to fight. They showed us the way so that, with political will and social consensus, we could carry out a process to eradicate impunity that is unique in the world, based on memory, truth and justice.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We want to continue strengthening Argentina’s long-standing position based on the principles of international humanitarian law, unrestricted respect for the sovereignty of States, the self-determination of peoples, the gender perspective and cooperation. Through the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, holding the presidency pro tempore, we are reinforcing the principles of collaboration, promoting democratic pluralism and fostering South- South and triangular cooperation. Argentina is actively involved in peacekeeping operations, an essential instrument of the United Nations. We will continue on that path. I would like to draw attention to the use of unilateral coercive measures.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“They need a constructive relationship between States and societies — a crucial partnership, without which sustainable development becomes an illusion. Urgent issues, such as climate change, biodiversity and plastic pollution, should mobilize our efforts in the hope that we can build a broad consensus to ensure the preservation of the planet and humankind. We are not all equally responsible for the climate crisis. Neither Latin America and the Caribbean nor Africa are at the forefront of carbon emissions. Responsibilities must clearly be differentiated, and that requires immediately alleviating the efforts of those that were not to blame.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We are working to ensure that our path towards achieving environmental sustainability and food and energy security will be feasible, but all our efforts will be in vain if we do not walk on that path within a framework of increased equitable economic and social development. In that spirit, we are deploying our industrial capabilities and creating added value along the entire production chain. We must include our industrial, scientific and technological suppliers at every turn. Production that creates dignified employment is the path we have chosen to develop. Just as it is incumbent upon us to seek development that benefits everyone, the environmental situation of our planet urgently requires us to take firm and decisive action for the sake of future generations. Ecological problems require the involvement of everyone.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“If we ensure such a system, food-producing countries will be able to make the needed investments to increase production and help alleviate world hunger Just as we must ensure food security, we must have secure and predictable access to energy. Argentina will continue to stand ready to help overcome that great challenge. We are ramping up production to provide the world with clean energies ,and others that, like natural gas, will enable us to reduce carbon emissions during the transition. We have the world’s second largest unconventional gas reserves and the fourth largest unconventional oil reserves. We hold large reserves of lithium and the potential to develop solar and wind energy, as well as low- and zero-emission hydrogen.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Hunger cannot be allowed in this day and age. The recent reports of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations warn of the impact of the excessive volatility in some food prices and the changes in input markets that influence their production. All of that has had and continues to have a significant effect on increased inflation worldwide; all of those factors are to the detriment of the most vulnerable. Argentina will fulfil its role as a reliable producer and exporter of nutritious and quality food, as well as a supplier of technologies to improve food production. We must guarantee a fairer and more transparent, equitable and predictable international trade system for agricultural products.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Argentina is among them. For that reason, I would like to thank all the States that have supported us in the complex process of renegotiating our foreign debt. My Government did not create that debt but is addressing it in all seriousness. Our criteria are known. They respond to the provisions of resolution 69/319 of 2015, which stipulates that sovereign debt restructurings must promote sustained and inclusive growth while minimizing economic and social costs, warranting the stability of the international financial system and respecting human rights. While we call for a change in the paradigms that govern the international financial system, we subscribe to the same principles underpinning the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Food security must be guaranteed to all who live on the planet.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In order to overcome such challenges, we must restore the primacy of peace. We have always advocated for the peaceful settlement of all disputes. It is imperative that all ongoing hostilities cease. For that reason, we need to work together to pursue dialogue and restore peace in the dispute that began with the Russian Federation’s military encroachment on the territory of Ukraine. As we seek to reach the horizon of global peacemaking, we must abandon the economic and financial practices that the developed world demands of the developing world. Maintaining the current situation will only increase poverty and marginalization. If we do not change, we will be unable to build fairer, freer and more stable societies committed to upholding their institutions. Indebted nations suffer much more from the effects of the established system.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Where are the ethics in the fact that the pandemic has claimed four times as many lives in the poorest countries than in the richest? Failing to condemn this model of capital accumulation that concentrates wealth among a few people while millions of others drown in poverty makes us complicit in creating such a level of inequality. We still have time to stop many of the threats facing humankind. The injustices we are seeing will only get worse if extreme positions take root; if wars become protracted, while exacerbating hunger; and if persistent inflation erodes the incomes of the most vulnerable. We must work together in solidarity. We must strengthen a cooperative multilateralism that will ensure the strengthening of the rule of law, the principle of non-violence and greater equity to reduce social gaps.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Those who seek to weaken and erode democracies have a special interest in fostering extreme polarization. Let us not resign ourselves to such a scenario. Let us forge a robust global condemnation of those who promote division in our communities. It is incumbent upon the General Assembly to respond to the warning signs on the planet in a timely manner. As survivors of a pandemic that struck humankind, we face the choice of learning from that tragic experience or watching the world move towards ever-greater confrontations. The pandemic revealed the enormous inequalities endured by the world’s population. Is it fair that the wealth of 10 men alone represents a sum greater than the combined income of 40 per cent of the world’s population?”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In 1983, we restored democracy and began a long historic cycle during which different political parties have alternated serving in the Government. We Argentinians adopted the “never again” agreement on State terrorism and political violence. We value democracy as a model of social development that demands respect for others in their diversity. I am sure that fascist violence under the guise as republicanism will not succeed in changing the broad consensus to which the vast majority of Argentine society adheres. By exploiting the unrest caused by the pandemic and the economic effects of the war, extremist and violent narratives have proliferated and found fertile ground for promoting anti-political sentiment in our societies. Remaining silent before such glaring signs could make us responsible for jeopardizing the rule of law itself.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Many times in history, assassinations have been the prologue to great tragedies. Based on the rejection or hatred of their victims, the perpetrators of such actions have upended the public order and opened the gates to enormous social discord. Entire peoples have succumbed to such prophets of hate. For that very reason and in order to underscore the values of rational democratic coexistence, I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude for the solidarity that the entire world has shown with Argentina with regard to the attempt on the life of our Vice-President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. In Argentina, the attempt on the life of Vice-President not only affected the public order; it also sought to undermine the virtuous collective achievement that next year will see the celebration of its fortieth anniversary.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The hands of the clock are ticking. There is no time to lose. It is now or never. History will judge us not on our words but on our actions.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“It also insists on an unjustified and excessive military presence on the islands, which only brings tension to a region characterized as an area of peace and international cooperation. We have asked the Secretary-General to renew his efforts within the good offices mandate entrusted to him by this Organization. In short and in conclusion. Just as we reject all forms of colonialism, we also understand that humankind faces the challenge of combining rapid technological change and fatal environmental degradation with a vision of comprehensive human development and global social justice. That is not a choice. It is either solidarity or extinction. We will emerge from the triple pandemic that I mentioned at the beginning only through bold leadership, innovative ideas and schemes that make possible what seems to be a chimera.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Apart from the United Kingdom’s intention to maintain the manifestly illegitimate colonial situation, there is no reason that the bilateral dialogue on the question of the Malvinas should not be resumed now. The request of resolution 2065 (XX), of 1965, has remained in force and has been reiterated on many occasions, most recently with the adoption by consensus of a new resolution on the question by the Special Political and Decolonization Committee on 24 June. The United Kingdom persists in its attitude of disregarding the call to resume negotiations on the territorial dispute and has exacerbated the dispute by calls for the illegal and unilateral exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources in the area — an action that is contrary to resolution 31/49 of this Assembly.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“There is no single development model that serves all the nations of the world. An inclusive approach to sustainable food systems is therefore essential, with solutions tailored to the social situation and needs based on solid scientific evidence. Finally, let me mention an issue of great significance to our nation. The Argentine Republic reaffirms its legitimate and inalienable rights to sovereignty over the Malvinas, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime areas, which are part of the Argentine national territory. Those territories have been illegally occupied by the United Kingdom for more than 188 years.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“We reiterate the request to the international community to comply with the requirements contained in the INTERPOL Red Notices in the event of the possible presence of a suspect on their territories, which Argentina has never ceased to demand. Colleagues from around the world, With regard to the Food Systems Summit, an event that I welcome, I would like to say that the topic is, in my opinion, of particular importance not only to Argentina but to all of us given our status as producers and exporters of healthy and nutritious food to the entire world. We believe that the transition towards sustainability in food production systems must be gradual and in line with the ways and time frames decided by each country based on its productive, economic and social circumstances.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Argentina highlights the efforts of the United Nations Office of Counter- Terrorism to support States in implementing the United Nations Global Counter- Terrorism Strategy, with full respect for international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international refugee law. Twenty-seven years after the attack on the headquarters of the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina, we continue the ongoing policy initiated in that area in 2003 of requesting the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with the Argentine judicial authorities in order to move forward with the investigation of the attack.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The Argentine Government resolved to strengthen care for women victims of violence, while implementing a gender focus in social and labour policy measures and promoting joint responsibility and a fairer distribution of care tasks. With regard to the rights of diversities, we have made progress on historic measures to expand and recognize rights, such as the adoption of the transvestite-trans labour quota law, which stipulates that the national Government must ensure that a minimum of 1 per cent of its workforce is made up of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people, and a decree that provides for the issuance of national identity documents that recognize non-binary identities. Let me now turn to the scourge of terrorism.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“That commitment is reflected at the national level, and its highest expression is the establishment of the Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity. With the adoption of the law to legalize abortion, the Argentine State assumed the responsibility of legislating and protecting through public policies the health and life of women and people of other gender identities capable of bearing children. At the same time, we adopted the Law on Comprehensive Health Care during Pregnancy and Early Childhood, which expands benefits and rights and guarantees health care for women during pregnancy and for children in the early years of life.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“We face the challenge of building a new beginning towards more just, inclusive and democratic societies. The prevention and early warning of situations that could lead to massive human rights violations, as well as crimes against humanity or genocide, must be one of the main tasks of the United Nations. Argentina is firmly committed to moving forward towards the universalization of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, a crucial instrument in the fight against impunity. Together with France, we are currently working on a third campaign for the universalization of the Convention so that more States ratify it, with the aim of reaching 100 ratifications by 2025. Argentina also takes responsibility for the historical demands of the women’s and diversity movements.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The capitalization of multilateral development banks, by leveraging funds from country contributions, is also an urgent task. It is also necessary to deepen the debate on the new global minimum tax. What has been set out by the Group of Seven and the G20 is a first step, but it is insufficient to benefit emerging economies. It is necessary to work towards a cooperative approach, in which the Sustainable Development Goals can become a reality. Dear colleagues, The crisis caused by COVID-19 is also a human rights crisis. The pandemic has exacerbated violence against women, intensified the stigmatization of migrants, people of African descent, ethnic minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex people, the elderly and people with disabilities and had a serious impact on indigenous peoples.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“We welcome the expansion and distribution of the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights, an initiative that has opened the door to hope. What was unthinkable a year ago is now a reality. This issue must give rise to a major environmental pact of solidarity that includes low- and middle-income countries with high climate and financial vulnerability. A pact that allows for the extension of debt repayment terms and the application of lower rates under the current circumstances of financial, health and ecological pressure. We must promote sustainable financing systems that support payment mechanisms for ecosystem services and the concept of environmental debt. Debt-for-climate swaps are another positive step.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“We believe that the extension of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative of the Group of 20 (G-20), while valuable, is an interim and insufficient measure that does not fully address the issue of debt relief and the restructuring of unsustainable debts. Similarly, the lack of a multilateral framework for debt restructuring for middle-income countries remains a major gap in global financial governance. We therefore encourage the extension of the new G-20 Common Framework for Debt Relief to vulnerable middle-income countries. We also propose that the credit risk rating of countries, currently in the hands of a few private agencies, should be part of the reform agenda of the global financial architecture. Change, while difficult, is not impossible.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“I repeat: they gave us in just one year practically the same amount as they gave to 85 countries around the world in the year of the pandemic. There is no technical rationale, ethical logic or political sensitivity that can justify such an anomaly. What is even more serious is that a large part of the funds provided to Argentina have been drained out of the country by an irresponsible liberalization of the capital account. From that case of “debticide”, which cries out to the global financial world, I emphasize that it is key to restore the principles of debt sustainability that were discussed and agreed at the United Nations, in resolution 69/319 of 2015. For that reason, we also support the idea of promoting an inclusive multilateral agreement that can fully address the issues related to sovereign debt restructuring.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)