Foreign Minister Yván Gil highlighted the need to adapt the MNOAL to the situations of today's world
MPPRE
Published at: 20/01/2024 12:30 PM
The Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil,
highlighted the need to adapt the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (MNOAL) to
the new times, in order to achieve the desires for peace, justice and development that peoples demand.
During the plenary session of the XIX Summit of
Heads of State and Government of the MNOAL, in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, the Venezuelan
Foreign Minister explained that “the world in which we live today is very
different from that of 1961, when the First Summit of Heads of State and Government of the MNOAL was held in Belgrade.
However, many of the threats and challenges
of that time still prevail in this 21st century, which confirms not only the
validity of our Movement, but also the urgent task of advancing its
revitalization to realize, among others, the establishment of a
more peaceful and prosperous world and of that new truly just and
equitable world order to which we are all committed”.
On behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Gil
expressed concern about the persistence and upsurge
worldwide of “situations of foreign occupation and colonial domination”,
as well as the “emergence of new practices that seek to subjugate our
peoples, curtail their right to self-determination and freely decide their
destiny, in disregard of their sovereignty; that is, today we are facing the rise of modern practices of neocolonialism that, in short, seek to promote
reconquest of our peoples and nations”.
For this reason, he highlighted the role of the Mnoal, which “
from its positions of principle, has been key to advancing the decolonization agenda
”, while urging “to continue at the forefront of
efforts to move towards the total, complete and definitive elimination of
colonialism in all its forms and manifestations; to achieve the realization
of the inalienable rights of the sister peoples of Western Sahara, Puerto Rico, New Caledonia
, French Polynesia and many others that
remain unjustly on the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories”.
Finally, he announced that Caracas will host, next May , the United Nations Caribbean Regional Seminar on Decolonization, in which “we hope concrete steps can be taken towards this urgent common objective and the full realization, both in letter and spirit, of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, as well as with regard to the struggle for reparations to a legacy of centuries of colonialism, slavery, transatlantic trafficking and genocide”.