(Unofficial translation)
Gobierno de Reconciliación y Unidad Nacional
Unida Nicaragua Triunfa
Message from Nicaragua
Third Summit of the South,
Heads of State and Government of G77+China
Kampala, Uganda
January 21, 2024
Thank you very much,
Brother Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda.
Brother Miguel Díaz Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba.
Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government and Heads of Delegations.
Your Excellency General Odongo Jeje Abubakhar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
Much appreciated Observers, special guests and members of the press who are joining us at this Meeting.
1. Receive fraternal greetings from Compañero President of Nicaragua, Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Compañera Vice-President Rosario Murillo, we thank the People and Government of the Republic of Uganda for their warm welcome and for hosting the Third Summit of the South of the G77+China Group.
2. Our recognition and gratitude to the brotherly Government of Cuba for the excellent coordination and leadership of the group during 2023, we welcome the Republic of Uganda, wishing it the greatest success in the responsibility it has assumed as President of the G77+China Group, Nicaragua expresses its fraternal support and collaboration.
3. Today, the Member States of the G77+China Group have come together with one voice from the Global South reaffirming our commitment to unity, solidarity and mutual cooperation to move towards a more just, equitable and multipolar world for our developing countries.
4. The Delegation of Nicaragua welcomes the results contemplated in the Document of the Third Summit of the South, which promotes the collective interests of the group for effective international cooperation and development of our countries in the South, we must take urgent actions and promote inclusion, equity, social justice and better cooperation among countries, as well as contribute to the restitution of our Rights to Health, to the Life of Mother Earth and of our Peoples.
5. Given the current international economic order, which is unfair to our developing countries, we must continue to demand that the priorities defined by the G77+China be fulfilled, including the eradication of inequality and of poverty in all its forms, manifestations and dimensions.
6. It is essential that developed countries comply with their commitments to provide additional, predictable and sufficient financial resources for adaptation and mitigation, as well as technology transfer and capacity building to developing countries so that we can achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda, based on Equity and on Common but Differentiated Responsibilities.
7. To achieve the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the developed countries, the largest emitters, must urgently transform their unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, committing themselves to Climate Justice, as well as to the indispensable Policy of Reparation for our Losses and Damages, converted into direct and unconditional cooperation to ensure the survival of the Human Species, Life and the Rights of Mother Earth.
8. We denounce the imposition of illegal, terrorist unilateral coercive measures imposed by imperialist and neocolonialist countries on more than 30 countries, and consequently, more than 2 million million people suffer daily the impacts of these aggressions that are an obstacle to the right to development, and negatively impact on the public national policies of our peoples, thus undermining the ability to respond to the multiple world situations and capitalist crises resulting from their selfish, exclusionary and exceptionalist policies.
9. We reiterate our rejection and condemnation of these illegal measures and demand their immediate elimination so that our peoples can accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and achieve sustainable development in the world.
10. Our unconditional solidarity with the just cause and struggle of the Palestinian People, reiterating the call for the end of the Israeli occupation, the establishment of conditions for a lasting and permanent solution that respects the 1967 borders, leading to the realization of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State.
11. The Group must continue to promote respectful cooperation, human fraternity and a world culture of peace, free of hatred, so that our countries can develop safely, creating values, hope and better conditions for our future generations.
12. We will remain committed to joining efforts to continue working for the development of our Peoples, with the mutual unconditional support of the G77+China Group we will be able to break down the barriers of inequality, poverty, injustice and impartiality.
13. The Government of Nicaragua continues to constructively participate and actively contribute to strengthening our development projects and efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considering the priorities and solutions of developing countries.
Mr. President, to conclude,
14. Our gratitude and congratulations once again, to the Brotherly People and Government of Cuba for the successful conduct and celebration of the Summit on the Role of Science, Technology and Innovation on September 15 and 16, 2023 in Havana, Cuba.
15. We take the opportunity to recall the words of our President, Comandante Daniel at that Summit:
"I want to tell you, beloved Brothers and Sisters, beloved Compañeras and Compañeros, from the Peoples of Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, who are present at this Meeting, that Nicaragua has every disposition, and we have indeed survived thanks to the fact that we are already convinced that we must give practical answers to productive activity, to the demand in the field of Communication, to the extent of our possibilities without giving up and while supporting ourselves with our own strength, united as Nicaraguans and united all of us.”
16. It is time to unite and mutually cooperate to eliminate obstacles to development, committing ourselves as the G77+China Group to increase political will, as well as to implement and respect the multilateral cooperation and solidarity necessary to fulfill the desire of our peoples to live in a Multipolar, Just, Equitable, Inclusive and Humane world.
Thank you very much.