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Mexico's welfare plan stuns the UN
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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador chairs the UN Security Council meeting on Exclusion, Inequality and Conflict on November 9 2021
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MEXICO has just assumed the rotating presidency of the UN security council, and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Amlo) took the unprecedented step of arranging to chair a session of the council himself.
Heads of state normally address the general assembly, but Amlo clearly saw this as an opportunity to take the stage at the key decision-making body of the organisation.
On November 9 he chaired a session on a theme chosen by Mexico: peace, security, exclusion, inequality and conflict. After brief statements by the secretary-general and an Ecuadorian woman representing indigenous peoples, Amlo quoted former US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (one of the founders of the UN) on the universal right to a life free from fear and poverty.
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