Citas

"Let the ecologic debt be paid and not the foreign debt. Let hunger disappear and not man."

References to the original: SPEECH AT THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 12 DE JUNIO DE 1992

"(...) that everything that today contributes to underdevelopment and poverty is tantamount to a flagrant attack on the ecology".

References to the original: SPEECH GIVEN BY COMANDER IN CHIEF AT THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, June 12, 1992

"(...) that everything that today contributes to underdevelopment and poverty is tantamount to a flagrant attack on the ecology. As a result, tens of millions of men, women and children perish every year in the Third World, far more than in each of the two world wars. The unequal terms of trade, protectionism and the foreign debt are also an assault on the ecology and facilitate the destruction of the environment".

References to the original: SPEECH GIVEN BY COMANDER IN CHIEF AT THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, June 12, 1992

"Let’s put an end to the transfer of lifestyles and consumer habits to the Third World that ruin the environment. Let human life be more rational. Let a just international economic order be implemented. Let science work toward a sustainable development without contamination".

References to the original: SPEECH GIVEN BY COMANDER IN CHIEF AT THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, June 12, 1992

"They have poisoned oceans and rivers and contaminated the air; they have weakened and opened holes in the ozone layer and saturated the atmosphere with gases that impair climate conditions with catastrophic effects that we are starting to feel".

References to the original: SPEECH GIVEN BY COMANDER IN CHIEF AT THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

“We should proclaim with all of our energies that we have the right to breath pure air, to drink uncontaminated water, to feed ourselves with healthy food….we have the right to be educated, to receive medical assistance, to be less poor when others are ever richer.”

References to the original: Speech delivered at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) held in Istanbul, Turkey, June 14, 1996

“We trust in humanity; we trust in man. And humanity won't let itself be annihilated. It won't let its nature, its waters, its seas, its resources be annihilated.”

References to the original: Speech delivered in the closing session of the Summit of Ministers of Health of the Non-Aligned Countries held at Havana’s Conference Center, June 26, 1998