CARACAS – Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil declared during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that “free peoples” are building a “new world order.”
The minister also “recognized” the China-led BRICS economic and security bloc’s “contribution” to the current global geopolitics and the “democratization of international relations,” reiterating that the Maduro regime wishes to join the group. BRICS is an acronym representing current bloc members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, but the five countriesto welcome a host of new members – most notably, rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran – at their summit in August.
“Today we see how many agencies, programs, and funds of the United Nations system fail to fulfill their mandates and end up being instrumentalized by the interests of the United States of America and its allies,” Gil said. “We must reform the organization to make it a democratic institution where all members have a voice and participate in decisionmaking on equal terms.”