Statement of ECUADOR at UNGA73

We exclude those that are different, the poor, the old, the young, we abuse the woman, the girl, the indigenous woman. There are so many forgotten and abandoned brothers and sisters! So many people pass us by of whose presence we are not even aware!

Maybe because we were idealist teenagers, and because we continue to be non-conforming adults, we do not understand how the big powers invest in arms instead of investing in the development of peoples. We do not understand how those countries, that are developed and have achieved military superiority, who have experienced wars through their own children, that those countries invest in conflicts that do not concern them, without seeking to solve them, but that aggravate or even perpetuate them.