President Gustavo Petro He questioned again, on Monday, September 22, United States’ ‘descertification’ to the country And he accused the UN of being “accomplice” of a Anti -Drug Policy that, according to him, has failed because It is not based on science, but on whether substances occur in the south or in the global north.
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“I am a president with a foreign government (…) with what right of international law can a president of a foreign government discertify another who was elected by his own people? Is that democracy or the beginning of barbarism?“He said during a high -level dialogue in New York about solutions for climate financing, within the framework of the eighth session of the UN General Assembly.
The president referred to the decision announced last week by the US government of getting Colombia out of the list of countries that, in the last year, fulfilled the fight against drug trafficking, a process known as ‘descertification’.
Petro also criticized that The UN defines which drug is’ poisonous or not according to the country that produces it, And he gave as an example the alcohol that, he said, the United Nations does not consider as dangerous as cannabis “Because it really does not occur so much in the south of the world, but in the north“
“Then we have that substances are dangerous not because of science, but in case they occur in the south or occur in the north“He insisted.
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UN General Assembly.
Rejection of military actions
The president also referred to the recent military attacks in the United States in international waters, Near Venezuela, against ships that supposedly carried drugs, and pointed out that the South is being “victim” of that approach that involves the “murder of young people, who are not to blame, with missiles, ordered by a president who is from the United States.”
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Petro stressed that the “so -called war on drugs” is a “UN policy of the UN” and a “resounding failure” because “it was never a war against drug traffickers, but a dominant policy of world power from the north over the south” and why guilt substances Instead of pointing to “those who live in New York or in Miami or Dubai”, in apparent reference to the heads of that business.
“The missiles do not go there, they go to the poor. It is the same power that does not allow solving the climatic crisis and therefore does not let the life of humanity possible, the one who throws bombs in Gaza (..) does so to continue dominating the world“Petro said, which reHe also proclanted that there was no American representative in the meeting.
For the Colombian president, all this, like the “new immigration policy”, is part of a “war in the world between greed and life”, in which, he added, “The United States government and the governments of Western Europe believe that there is a higher race and that is why Colombians are treated in the streets as if they were slaves“
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The head of state also said that “What they are doing in Gaza is an experiment like Hitler, the same, when he started trying the gas cameras and concentration camps“And he insisted that” ending genocide means (creating) an armed forced peace of the United Nations. “
Event in which President Petro participated, on Monday, at the UN.
EFE
