Kampala, January 22 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan Foreign Minister Iván Gil today called for political commitment to increase and fully realize South-South cooperation, while speaking at the concluded third G77-China Summit. In Kampala, Uganda.
He also called for ensuring equal conditions to facilitate cooperation between the South and the North and vice versa.
The senior Bolivarian diplomat stated that the Group of 77 and China have the knowledge and resources necessary to achieve the consolidation of the right to development and thus stop relying on those who, from their selfishness, “manifest all kinds of obstacles and mechanisms” to stagnate our economy. progress. .
He urged Gill to continue working to restructure the international financial system, leading to its democratization and “building a basket of currencies” for trade that would defeat the dominance of the dollar once and for all.
He added that in addition to building an international economic structure that leads to decision-making between equals, with justice and solidarity, to lead new and transformed international financial institutions.
The Venezuelan Foreign Minister called for working to find mechanisms that allow us to eliminate financing conditions that make the external debt “eternal and unpayable,” and pointed out that we have already paid it several times and every day we owe more.
He stressed the importance of “making more efforts to eliminate” this situation, and called for not allowing the application of “criminal, unfair and illegal unilateral coercive measures” and neo-colonial measures that slow down our development.
The head of Bolivarian diplomacy stated that Venezuela will continue to denounce the imposition of these measures by the United States and its allies in the European Union and other countries.
He added that these alleged sanctions constitute restrictions and obstacles for the Venezuelan people to achieve and realize their economic, social and cultural rights.
Gill reiterated the illegality of these measures, considering that they contradict international law and represent an obstacle to the right to development and limit the economic growth of countries, which is why he called for their immediate lifting.
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