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Iris Xiomara Castro Sarmiento

lines on the record: 25
first: 2022-09-24
most recent: 2023-09-24
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-general-debate

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“such as the Andean Development Corporation, of which we are already a member, and the administration of the New Development Bank of the BRICS group of countries — Brazil. Russia. India. China and South Africa. I would like to reiterate, as I did at the CELAC- European Union summit, the vehement call for the freedom of Julian Assange, a faithful defender of free expression, a principle that we must all defend. In defence of the indigenous peoples who fight for the land and the rivers. I am proud as a woman to convey the message of our comrade and martyr Berta Caceres. Wake up humankind. Time is running out.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We also demand the removal of Cuba from the list of terrorist countries, as that is a distorted, bogus and capricious measure. Similarly, the unjust measures and sanctions against Nicaragua must be eliminated, because they are barriers that prevent us from normalizing our relations with that fraternal country. I believe in a multipolar world, where exchange and cooperation for development is based on the principles of independence, sovereignty and non-interference. On the basis of those principles, a couple of months ago. I officially opened relations with the People’s Republic of China. Similarly, we have reached out to financial organizations and new initiatives for us.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is important to put an end to the practice of sanctions, piracy and the confiscation of the assets of one nation by another. We cannot talk about a civilized world when we live with the risk of being embargoed and having our reserves frozen in foreign banks, as is currently happening to Venezuela, whose assets have been confiscated, violating all the norms of international law. The General Assembly every year demands the end of the blockade against Cuba, owing to it being an arbitrary and obsolete measure that is contrary to international law. violates the principle of respect for the self-determination of peoples and sacrifices a noble people who. despite the limitations imposed on them, continue to contribute to the world’s solidarity. We condemn the long and cruel blockade against Cuba and Venezuela.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The world of Bretton Woods has hit rock bottom, and we must now recognize that at the current pace we will not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and secure sufficient financing for climate adaptation. It is not an issue of taking steps, but of proposing changes to the economic system that require a deep commitment to humankind and nature. There is no such invisible hand. There is no spillover. Practice teaches us that the application of global capitalism and the neoliberal model creates only misery, inequality and a crazy individualism of consumer societies in the face of enormous deprivation for billions of people. The war in Ukraine must come to an end. All humankind must to find a way to achieve peace. We cannot live with the permanent threat of a conflict that will put an end to our planet.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I would like to state how important it is to strengthen the integration process, which has seen sluggish development over the past 30 years. We must express therefore a genuine political will that allows us to advance the customs union, social and environmental policies and the safe transit of people and their goods. Today the great economic interests are confronting each other in the war in Ukraine. In the end. the most affected are always the poorest countries and peoples of the world, who are suffering from inflation, food shortages and high fuel prices. The military industrial complex consumes the majority of the budgets of developed countries with trillions and trillions of dollars, but that is in contrast with the indifference and inability to contribute to humankind and to the protection of nature.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Today I propose to open spaces for dialogue among us to formulate proposals to solve the challenges facing our region. We are not only one of the most unequal and poorest regions, but also one of the regions with the lowest economic growth and technological backwardness, which affects our ability to address the threats we are facing. Only by supporting each other will we be able to move forward. We must not forget our brothers and sisters in Haiti. The humanitarian crisis of an oppressed and revolutionary nation deserves our full support and solidarity. At the third summit of the European Union and CELAC. held in July. I clearly stated Honduras’ views on international issues, which, as I have stated in the General Assembly, require an urgent solution. And as for SICA and Central America.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“I gave the Secretary-General the official proposal for an agreement to establish the International Commission Against Corruption and Impunity for Honduras, which is impartial, autonomous and independent with the capacity to investigate and prosecute cases of high-impact corruption networks and financial crimes. That is the only way to clean up a State where public institutions, the pirates of the political class and public-private partnerships have been infiltrated by organized crime. Next year I will assume the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Central American Integration System (SICA). That includes all the great homeland dreamed up by the liberators and those of us who fought for the unity of South America, the Caribbean. Central America and Mexico.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Popular support has been demonstrated in the recent mobilizations of popular resistance at the national level, with hundreds of thousands of grateful men and women who have expressed their support for our fight for the return to the rule of law and the restitution of dignity to the Honduran people and the presidency of the Republic. On Monday. 18 September, upon my arrival in New York, after participating in the Group of 77 and China summit in Havana. Cuba, in line with the commitment subscribed in my plan of Government and in accordance with the memorandum of understanding signed with the United Nations in 2022.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It is impossible to understand the magnitude of the tragedy suffered by the majority of the Honduran people and the constant caravans of emigrants that arrive in the United States if we deny the 13 years of dictatorship overseen by the international community, which multiplied the country’s debt by six and saw the country reach a 74 per cent poverty rate — the highest in the history of Honduras. The Honduran people, in their noble aspiration for justice, have vehemently mandated that I combat and dismantle the narco-State and the public-private corruption that looted and destroyed institutions, corrupted the popular will with electoral fraud and imposed State terrorism with death squads.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“They are organized in an alliance of corrupt politicians and supposed civil society with the aim of stopping the proposed structural changes that the people ordered me to carry out at the polls. They are the same people who murdered Morazan. Today they oppose the approval of the Tax Justice Law and are boycotting the election of the new Attorney General to perpetuate the impunity to which they are accustomed and to hinder the arrival of the international commission to combat corruption and impunity.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We have also brought back the historic free tuition programme, fuel subsidies and free energy for the poorest, implemented massive bonuses for agricultural production, repaired 12.000 abandoned schools, ensured productive roads in all the municipalities of Honduras, repaired the road network and begun the construction of eight new hospitals. In 2022. the previous President of Honduras was accused by the United States of conspiracy, of organizing the trafficking of thousands of tons of drugs for a decade, and of leading a criminal organization that included various figures from the underworld and State authorities, such as mayors, ministers, deputies, generals and police chiefs, some of whom have already been sentenced. Those assailants who took the State hostage now conspire against my Government.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“that divided the territory into 17 pieces and gave them to 25 economic groups. In terms of security, we have already achieved a significant reduction in extortion, homicides and violence through the Solution Against Crime programme, the intervention of detention centres and the state of emergency. To my gratuitous detractors. I should also point out for the record that the greatest increase in the budget of the social sectors has been ordered, with a view to reducing poverty and promoting health, education and school meals for all children in primary school.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Today marks one year since I last appeared before the General Assembly (see A/77/PV.5) as the first female President of the Republic of Honduras, an event that emerged from the resistance in the streets and the fight against the coup d’etat that defeated the democratically elected president. Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales. My Government’s progress and results have already been recognized by the international community and financial organizations: greater economic growth, public finances salvaged through the elimination of corrupt trusts, a single treasury, fiscal discipline, the timely payment of the burdensome debt and decreased inflation and country risk. Together with the National Congress, we repealed the Secrets Law. an instrument of corruption of the previous regime. We repealed the Employment and Economic Development Zone Law.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Today, as war is once again punishing the world’s poorest and our countries are invaded, we call for a return to respect for the self-determination of peoples and a rejection of the abominable and brutal blockade of the people of our sister republic of Cuba. It is time to seriously discuss the multipolarity of the world. President Barack Obama took the first steps towards ending that infamy. And as the President of Colombia, Mr. Gustavo Petro, has already stated, the aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela must end. As our comrade Berta Caceres said, the people of the world must wake up. We still have time.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“That is why we have already initiated the refoundation of our country and education system with the ideals and values of our national hero, Jose Francisco Morazan Quezada. My Government has begun a process of refoundation and profound change based on four fundamental pillars — first, a revolutionary transformation of education, raising the human spirit and ending colonialism; secondly, building an alternative and profoundly sovereign economic model; thirdly, building a system with the promotion of humanism, solidarity, integration with our brother peoples, peace and respect for human rights at its core; and fourthly, the progressive nationalization of public services such as health care, drinking water, electricity and the Internet.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Paradoxically, those who emigrate from our country generate more foreign- currency income than many of our traditional exports. We express our solidarity with and support for those known as tepesianos. In Honduras, we cannot continue to sustain the hypocrisy of a system that judges crimes linked to drug trafficking, a crime that it has nevertheless supported and facilitated for more than a decade, including through two rounds of electoral fraud and crimes against the nation and millions of Hondurans. For all of those reasons, we will establish an international commission to combat corruption and impunity with the support of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Honduras will have a future only if it takes firm steps to dismantle the neoliberal economic dictatorship.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We have taken a sovereign decision to invest in our own development by replacing imports while competing in international markets without subsidizing the excesses of developed nations. We will recognize the importance of women, who have been denied inclusion in development for centuries, as an integral part of the backbone of society. We will provide them, as well as our children and young people, with health care, quality education, security and food sovereignty. For Honduras, each wave of migrants that fled the dictatorship that was in place for more than a decade represented a painful loss for their families and for our country as a whole. The numbers tell us that the exodus provoked by neoliberal injustices only generates more unemployment and shackles us to a deplorable dependency.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Every inch of the homeland that was usurped in the name of the sacrosanct free market, the Zones for Economic Development and Employment and other privileged regimes was watered with the blood of our indigenous peoples. My social and democratic Government will restore a State of justice and the rule of law so that all of that will never happen again. We are working hard to prioritize incentives and eliminate tax abuses. We have already begun to promote laws on energy as a public good, ensuring workers’ rights and supporting our internal market by investing in agriculture for food security and subsidizing our country’s poorest, who will no longer pay for electric power. We have proposed the renegotiation of free trade agreements.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“On 15 September, our day of independence, the resistance that fought against the dictatorship imposed during the past 13 years supported me en masse in the streets, fighting off public threats and refusing to allow our national assets to continue being handed over to the highest bidder as if we were a no man’s land. Never again will we be branded with the stereotype of banana republic. We will end the monopolies and oligopolies that only impoverish our economy. As a generous people who have shed their blood in defence of our forests and rivers, we will not forget that during the dictatorship hundreds of young people were murdered, including our comrade Berta Caceres. Nor will we forget the forced disappearances of Hondurans for their attitudes and beliefs, including our five Garifuna comrades who have now been missing for two years.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“It perpetuates the existence of third- and fourth-class countries, while those who believe themselves to be civilized never tire of invasions, wars and financial speculation, crucifying us with their inflation time and again. I am here on this rostrum to demand that they respect us. We want to live in peace. Do not keep trying to destabilize Honduras, dictate measures to us or decide with whom we should or should not have relations. The people are sovereign. They showed that on 28 November with their support for my victory, the biggest in the history of my country.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The industrialized nations of the world are responsible for the serious deterioration of the environment, yet we are the ones they are forcing to pay for their expensive lifestyles. They stop at nothing to drag us into their schemes and plunge us into an endless crisis, pretending that their hands are tied. The Honduras that I lead is being built based on a vision of a humanist refoundation imbued with dignity and sovereignty. We will take the necessary legal steps to help our environment to recover and share the common good with our entire population. That is why we find the current arbitrary world order to be unacceptable.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The public policies endorsed by the international financial community’s rentier model over the past 13 years dragged us into a world of violence and poverty characterized by failed and abandoned projects, corruption, looting and drug trafficking. The international witnesses to the electoral fraud that took place in 2013 and 2017 were well aware of what they were condemning our people to, and yet they were complacent about the worst scourge ever to plague our country. The arrogance of capital and narrow self- interest led many to opt for deceit, while organized crime drove the country into darkness. The poor nations of the world will no longer tolerate coups d’etat, the use of so-called lawfare or colour revolutions, which are usually aimed at plundering our wealth of natural resources.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“It is clear that for our country to survive today, we must reject the presumed austerity that rewards those who concentrate wealth in the hands of a few as inequality increases exponentially. Since we took office, at the end of January, we have been relentless in seeking consensus and always firmly determined to reach agreements on our compromises without denying them in any way. But attempts to undermine the will of the people are coming at us from every direction, with conspiracies being fomented between the same sectors that plundered the country and their allies in the coup, emboldened by a blatant anti-democratic attitude often disguised as diplomacy.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“But electoral democracy will not be enough to achieve full material and spiritual well-being for our people, after 13 years of dictatorship under the tutelage of the international community multiplied our country’s public debt sixfold and pushed our poverty rate to 74 per cent, the highest in the history of Honduras. Five out of 10 of my compatriots live in extreme poverty. However, it is clear to me that none of those figures will shock anyone in today’s world, where we live under a monetary dictatorship, where the poorest are subjected to draconian fiscal discipline measures that increase the neglected majorities’ suffering and where speculative capital knows no limits.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“I stand before this global forum at a historic moment for my country, not only because I am the first woman to have the honour of leading our Central American nation, but also because I represent its first democratically elected Government after 13 years of dictatorship; a 2009 coup d’etat fraught with cruel assassinations and death squads; two rounds of electoral fraud; a pandemic and two hurricanes. It is impossible to understand the Honduran people and our huge caravans of migrants without acknowledging the cruel suffering that we have had to endure.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)