International Seminar on Parliamentary Diplomacy, October 17-18, 2024, Havana, Cuba.
Honourable Chair, distinguished colleagues,
It is my great honour and pleasure to greet you on behalf of the delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia and to thank you for inviting us to take part in this seminar aimed at promoting debate on the role of parliamentarians in strengthening international rights, promoting the principles and goals of the United Nations Charter and in building up a better, more fair and peaceful world.
Today, when after over three decades, the world is becoming multipolar again, with increasingly certain end of the political hegemony of the collective West, the subjects discussed at this seminar are more than topical. I am convinced that over these two days we will have an opportunity to exchange experiences and acquire new knowledge that is necessary to establish a more fair world order, based on unconditional respect for the international rights and to build up a multipolar world based on the principles set up by the UN Charter and on an inalienable right of states and nations to a free economic development. This is a political struggle to establish the world order that would bring more security and stability, greater respect for underdeveloped and medium-developed countries and ensure thorough reforms of international financial institutions, thus creating conditions for equal economic development of all countries. In short, this is a struggle against the current political and financial slavery.
Is there anything more important today than fighting for the freedom, equality and parity of all states and nations, for an idea of national independence, for preservation of sovereignty and territorial integrity, but also fighting against neoimperialism and neocolonialism. I am glad to see that we will stand together in this fight and I am certain we will win.
