Message in the Global Call for the Summit of the Future
Message by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, in the Global Call for the Summit of the Future, from the Palace of the Revolution, on September 12th, 2024, "Year 66 of the Revolution".
Revolution Studies
(STENOGRAPHIC VERSIONS - PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC)
Excellencies
The first thing we must all ask ourselves is if there will be a future, if we will be able to guarantee future generations that space which fits in a word so full of questions and so lacking in certainties. Surely the answers will be as varied as the living conditions, subhuman, bearable, comfortable, or luxurious, of those who have the possibility to respond.
The future to which we aspire was traced decades ago and does not look good at all if we are guided by the signs of this present, increasingly unequal and exclusive, that the voracious neoliberal version of capitalism has imposed on a global scale as an expression of the undemocratic unipolarity that came with the collapse of the socialist alternative with the interventionist apogee of NATO.
The Summit of the Future is called to address in a direct and holistic way the structural, systemic, moral, and political failures that have prevented us from achieving the goals set out in its Pact.
Only multilateralism can guarantee a reliable scenario where, together, we undertake the actions that cannot be postponed against coercion, inequality, genocide, double standards, and the threat of war.
But this will only be possible if there is a real political will to remove the foundations of the current deeply unjust, unequal, and exclusive international order.
It will not even be possible to talk about the future until the Zionist barbarism against Palestine stops, as long as the philosophy of dispossession prevails, which is the philosophy of war, as the maximum Leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz warned so clearly 64 years ago.
The future will be a chimaera limited to reports and speeches, as long as spending on armaments continues to grow scandalously and funds essential to finance development are reduced, frozen or blocked.
It will not be possible to talk about the future without providing the most vulnerable with the financial, technological, and scientific means necessary to address the challenge that today represents for our nations to face climate change and, at the same time, embark on the path towards development.
The profound reform required by the international financial architecture is essential to close the abysmal gap that today separates the North from the South. This exercise cannot be translated into real benefits for our peoples if it is not carried out under the leadership of the United Nations.
The effects of the imbalances caused by the international economic order are multiplying for countries subject to unilateral coercive measures.
We reiterate the call for States to refrain from promulgating and implementing these measures that violate international law and the UN Charter.
For Cuba, the future requires that the illegal blockade of the United States be lifted once and for all and that the country be removed from the arbitrary list of states that supposedly sponsor terrorism.
Excellencies
We must recognise that the alternative to chaos, coercion and imbalances that prevail today cannot start from the old recipes and models of governance.
The current bases that define coexistence on the planet must be reconsidered.
The future does not exist. Wait for us to do it.
Thank you very much.