In his address to the high-level statement astatine the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Marcelo Ebrard, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, reaffirmed his country’s committedness against discrimination and hate speech and called for much solidarity.
Mr. Ebrard said that the economical recovery from the crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, has been marked by inequality. “The pandemic has highlighted the request for a beardown and effectual multilateral system”, he declared, calling for much solidarity between states.
“This unprecedented situation cannot beryllium flooded with unilateral oregon isolated actions, but rather through renewed practice and genuine planetary solidarity”, Mr. Ebrard underscored.
Universal healthcare
Speaking connected the request to guarantee universal and equitable entree to medicines, vaccines against COVID-19 and different aesculapian supplies, Mr. Ebrard said this was an “urgent priority”.
Noting that while 33 per cent of the planetary colonisation successful high-income countries has already received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine against COVID-19, lone 1.4 per cent of radical successful low-income countries person had entree to a vaccine, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs declared that “we request to beforehand vaccines being considered arsenic planetary nationalist goods”.
“The favoritism successful the designation of vaccines jeopardizes socioeconomic recovery, and the efficacy of mechanisms specified arsenic the COVAX platform”, helium told world leaders during his in-person code to the Assembly.
The yearly gathering is being held successful a hybrid format, with in-person and online speeches, after being forced astir wholly online past year because of the pandemic.
Migrants’ rights and solidarity
In his speech, Mr. Ebrard referred to 1 of the subjects that merit much attraction successful Mexico: migration and went connected to item Mexican’s long contented of solidarity with radical who request assistance for humanitarian reasons.
“This is wherefore we person granted planetary extortion to radical from Afghanistan who find themselves successful a concern of utmost vulnerability, peculiarly to women and girls”, he added, and urged all to admit that migration had benefited each societies astatine immoderate constituent in their historical development.
Mr. Ebrard reaffirmed that it is a planetary work to respect and support the quality rights of each persons, careless of their migratory quality, and called for a safe, orderly and regular migration based connected planetary cooperation.
In this sense, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed Mexico's committedness to proceed fighting hatred speeches, discrimination, xenophobia, racism, different related forms of intolerance and convulsive extremism manifestations, including achromatic supremacy.
Debt relief
Highlighting Mexico’s support for measures to guarantee that slightest developed countries tin payment from multilateral enactment mechanisms for indebtedness relief, Mr. Ebrard declared that middle-income countries besides request enactment mechanisms to retrieve from the COVID-19 crisis.
“These countries, wherever Mexico is included, correspond 75 per cent of the global population and are location to 62 per cent of radical successful situations of poverty”, he stated.
In this context, Mr. Ebrard called on international fiscal institutions, planetary banking, the backstage assemblage and each applicable actors successful the field, to beforehand measures that forestall different countries from incurring successful unsustainable levels of indebtedness and managing to direct their scarce resources to the socioeconomic recovery from the crisis.
Gender equality
Mr. Ebrard went connected to reiterate Mexico’s aim to beforehand a much equitable, just and equalitarian society, highlighting the feminist overseas argumentation adopted by Mexico successful 2020.
He stressed that bid is only possible if women and girls participate actively in its consolidation.
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