VALDRACK LUDWING JAENTSCHKE WHITAKER, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, warned that the world is not on a journey to peace. “Every day, we lose heart, we lose our soul,” he added.  “We will not be silent ever.  We denounce and condemn the genocide that the Government of Israel and its ‘First World’ allies have committed, commit and continue to commit against the glorious people of Palestine, against the courageous people of Lebanon and against so many other brave, valiant, dignified people,” he went on to say.  Nicaragua will not yield to brutality.  “We will never be silent,” he stressed, also reiterating:  “We denounce and condemn the aggressions against Syria, Iran and against all other great peoples in their struggles.”

Nicaragua would defend the principles of sovereignty and independence, the legitimate models of institutions and “our models of self-governance”, he went on to say.  “We stand shoulder to shoulder with all countries and peoples affected by barbarism and the brutality which was unleashed and is being unleashed against our Mother Earth and our resources that is causing what we know today as climate change,” he said.  Climate change is none other than selfishness and the pillaging of our earthly resources.  That pillaging has created myriad disasters, “disasters which are not natural”, disasters which require climate justice, “disasters that have been imposed upon us by selfish slave masters”.

To the invaders and interventionists “that are dressed in sheepskin, that have the faces of wolves … we say we are people rich in culture, resources and community models”, he said.  “We will not allow ourselves to be converted into needy beggars because we’re not beggars and will not allow you to pretend that we are just because you want to be falsely kind and generous,” he continued.  ALBA, or the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, is a triumphant alliance.  Nicaragua stands together with Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Honduras, among others, he said, also expressing his support for the Russian Federation “in its major struggles against the beast of fascism”, and China, “a country that teaches us so much”.