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Colombia slams West at UNGA for hypocrisy, arms supplies to Ukraine

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  • 22 Sep 2023 16:24
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro did not hesitate to remind that the nations condemning Russia have invaded Iraq, Syria, and Libya for the purpose of taking their oil.

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  • Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, US on September 19, 2023 (AP)
    Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, US, on September 19, 2023. (AP)

During his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, Colombian President Gustavo Petro called out the West for its hypocrisy regarding weapon supplies to Ukraine and foreign interference, expressing that the world has been dedicating itself and efforts to war rather than development.
 
"We are not thinking about how to expand life to the stars, but rather how to end life on our own planet," he said, criticizing the West for dragging as many nations as possible into the conflict in Ukraine. 

"Latin America has been called upon to produce war machines, men to go to the killing fields. They are forgetting that our countries have been invaded several times by the very same people who are now talking about combating invasions," Petro noted.

Read more: Latin America does not support arms supplies to Ukraine: Mexican FM
 
He did not hesitate to remind that the nations condemning Russia have invaded Iraq, Syria, and Libya for the purpose of taking their oil.

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"They are forgetting that the same reasons they used to defend Zelensky, are those very reasons which should be deployed to defend Palestine," he emphasized. 
 
"They do not have $100 billion to give to countries to defend themselves from floods, storms and hurricanes. But they do have that money in a single day to allow Russians and Ukrainians to kill one another."

Ukraine has not gotten a good rep at the UNGA this year as it wished, considering that even Eastern European countries have been toning down their rhetoric on supporting Ukraine and delivering arms to it. 

Europe thinking twice about Ukraine aid ahead of regional elections

The nations of Poland, Slovakia, and others located in Central and Eastern Europe, who have been fierce advocates of Ukraine in the conflict, are now facing re-election challenges and other domestic matters - making support for Ukraine fade away little by little. 

The most recent and shocking instance is Poland, after its Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Wednesday that the new weapon deliveries to Ukraine are stopping, possibly escalating the already-escalated dispute between both nations regarding grain shipments, which Poland claims is undercutting local production from Polish farmers.

In an appearance on the Polish television channel Polsat, Morawiecki said: “We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine, because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons.” 

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