On behalf of the general welcome barham salih the president of the republic of , iraq and we invite him to address the General Assembly. Translator mr. President , mr. Secretary general, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me pleasure to greet you in the name of iraq. A Founding Member of the United Nations. And i wish the General Assembly every success, especially as we see that the General Assembly has given a priority to confronting the challenges of climate, health care and Sustainable Development, which is a constructive measure that we hope would contribute to founding a Common International ground in our efforts to arrive at the solutions that our planet and humanity need. Since its inception, the United Nations has adopted the concept of a Partnership Among nations in order to achieve the people supreme values that governor its objectives and to resolve peacefully conflicts and to entrench human rights as a higher value and upmost objective. The long march of these efforts was full
In Human History and achieve a complete end to the war you can see the rest of the speech from yesterday if you go to our website cspan. Org. Were going to take you to the United Nations live for remarks of the iraqi president. On behalf of the general assemblily, i welcome the president of the republic of iraq and we invite him to address the General Assembly. Mr. President , mr. Secretary general, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me pleasure to greet you in the name of iraq. A Founding Member of the United Nations. And i wish the General Assembly every success, especially as we see that the General Assembly has given a priority to confronting the challenges of climate, health care and Sustainable Development which is a constructive measure that we hope would contribute to founding a Common International ground in our efforts to arrive at the solutions that our planet and humanity need. Since its inception, the United Nations has adopted the concept of a Partnership Among nations in ord
Ed. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member for holding this important hearing. I would like to yield all my time to congresswoman gonzalez. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield back. The chair recognizes representative gonzalezcolon. Thank you, i want to thank representative rad way began fog her time. He is entitled to his opinion but he does not li in puerto rico, he does not represent the island. No one voted for him. The only ones voted for is the governor and me. Hes a democrat and im a republican, and voters many times rejected him. What were supporting here is what the people of the island voted for, statehood. Thats democracy. Again, anybody can have their own opinion. But coming here the problem is established. We are not treated as equal under the law. The u. S. Congress can do whatever they want with territories. They can do whatever they want with the issue of puerto rico. And yet, we are skill facing a lot of the needs like the state os louisiana, new jersey, florida, tex
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