Jair Bolsonaro’s speech at the UN on Tuesday shocked foreign governments as an epigraph of once-revered diplomacy turned the tribune into an electoral platform. Even though he was rated as “more moderate” in his attacks on the international community, international observers have made it clear that Bolsonaro is a portrait of a “small” country in the world. for developing countries.
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In his speech on Tuesday, his government’s list of alleged achievements at the local level was met with ambiguity by foreign diplomats at the UN, as well as questions about bringing internal partisan disputes to the international stage.
However, it was also noted that no reference was made to the approximately 700,000 deaths, burnings and record levels of deforestation, destruction of human rights mechanisms and attacks on democracy in the pandemic. The decision to attack the national and foreign press, rather than making concrete proposals on how to deal with deforestation, was also widely interpreted.
“Your president didn’t understand where he was, who he represented and the position he occupied,” a veteran ambassador told the report while Bolsonaro was just speaking.
A North American diplomat asked, “Is he (Bolsonaro) lying and thinks we are his supporters?” he joked.
While emphasizing the commitment to immunize in the face of the pandemic, comments from agents affiliated with WHO (World Health Organization) agencies were not lacking. In existence, Bolsonaro’s attacks on the vaccine against covid-19 were deemed “extremely exhausting” for the strategy designed to tackle the pandemic.
Repeated references to Christians, including a phrase used by fascist leaders in the past, were considered clear signs that the president was not speaking to the world. But to your voters.
For foreign negotiators, Bolsonaro’s relative restraint, refraining from attacking the international community as he had done in previous years, does not persuade to tarnish the image of his speech as “parochial”.
“Today very few people pay attention to them. [de Bolsonaro] offers. “If he had not been the first to speak, the world would hardly have listened to what he had to say,” said a European diplomat.
Many governments in Europe directed their chancellors to make as little contact with Bolsonarism as possible and to delay more important projects.
In his conversation with the report, a Portuguese diplomat admitted that Lisbon had maintained its relationship with Brasília for some time because he understood that there was no way to spoil the relationship between the two countries.
Criticism among Brazilian organizations was also harsh. For the Climate Observatory, “Bolsonaro used his nearly 20-minute UN speech to take a stand and tried to mobilize his bases by describing an imaginary Brazil.”
“We have 33 million hungry people in the real world, 11% of Covid deaths in a country with 3% of the world’s population, and the country has the worst socio-environmental crisis since re-democratisation,” he said. “While past governments have recorded higher rates of deforestation in the Amazon, the Bolsonaro regime was the only one that did nothing about it, while also actively promoting environmental crimes and slaughter of indigenous peoples. Satellite measurements overlapped on the same mission to see deforestation tripled.” they emphasize.
“Occupation of indigenous lands in real Brazil has tripled, the number of indigenous peoples killed is the highest since 2003, deforestation in the Amazon has increased 75% in the last decade, and the number of fires by mid-September 2022 has already increased” Higher than in the whole of 2021 . In real Brazil, investments and international agreements have stalled due to the abolition of environmental governance, and the country has become a pariah in starring forums such as international climate negotiations,” he insists.
“The international community bids farewell this Tuesday in hopes that by 2023 Brazil will have a new government willing to take care of its own population and relocate the country to the world”.
“The only international court that should accept Jair Bolsonaro from now on is The Hague Tribunal for his criminal administration of the pandemic and his incitement to indigenous genocide,” says Marcio Astrini, secretary general of the Climate Observatory.
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Climate must be a priority for all governments
Before Bolsonaro took the floor, it was UN Secretary-General Antônio Guterres who sent and spoke harsh messages to leaders who questioned the foundations of the United Nations, especially climate. “Our planet is on fire,” he said. For him, the future of humanity is at stake.
According to Guterres, the world is waging a “suicide war” and the climate issue should be “a priority for all governments”. According to the Secretary-General’s assessment, today’s hottest summers could be tomorrow’s coolest.
The UN chief urged G20 governments to tax the oil industry and use these funds to help the poorest countries make the transition.
Another complaint concerns the behavior of leaders. According to her, “hate and misinformation are spreading, especially against women and vulnerable groups.” According to him, the world is experiencing “massive dysfunction” and is not ready to deal with such scenarios.
“The world is paralyzed and in danger. We can’t go on like this,” he warned.
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