 For more videos on People's Juggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Well, this has been a great opportunity for us to come back into the United Nations and the United Nations atmosphere where, as you know, last year during the pandemic there weren't General Assembly meetings. This time we were able to come with our new Foreign Minister, Felix Blasencia representing the government of President Maduro. President Maduro gave a very important speech, a taped speech during the General Assembly where he laid out Venezuela's visions for the time and also we were able to connect with a lot of the countries that we don't usually, you know, haven't been able to sit with because of these difficulties of the pandemic but it's very important for Venezuela to strengthen its ties with other countries, in particular countries that are farther away geographically from us like countries in Asia and Africa and in particular this year we had a very special meeting with 18 countries sat together to talk about the defense of the United Nations Charter. This is very key because we feel that today the Charter and the principles and values, the principle of non-intervention into internal affairs of every country, these principles are being challenged by policies from some of the members that are trying to impose their will on others. So it's a very important moment that 18 countries have taken the opportunity to say that they want to defend those principles, they want to maintain them, they want to make sure that they are not trampled upon, no matter how strong the country, you know, is that's trying to vulnerable these rights. It's important that we all get together and we defend those principles because those are the principles that can guarantee the country sovereignty and that also can guarantee world peace. If we don't if we don't respect the Charter then we might as well, you know, forget about the whole international architecture. It's key that we come out and express our defense of the Charter. We also came back a week ago from the CELAC meeting in Mexico, which is also very important in regional terms. We find that CELAC is the alternative to the Organization of American States because it's an organization that really is concerned about the issues of Latin American Caribbean countries and not the imposition from countries that do not have our same vision or same interests. We want to strengthen the CELAC architecture. We want to make sure that we can, you know, as we face very crucial problems together in the next foreseeable future, problems like climate change, still problems addressing the pandemic, it is important that we do it together in an organization that has, that where we are treated as equals when we're not, you know, paid against one another but rather with a clear objective of cooperation between countries. There's a very important process going on because Venezuelan, the Venezuelan government has always been open to the dialogue with the opposition but there have been parts of the opposition that until now have decided not to say it but rather promote unconstitutional ways into getting into the government, promote violence. So finally President Maduro has, I believe it's his achievement of President Maduro, his consistency in maintaining openness to dialogue that has led to this moment where we are now sitting, the Bolivarian government of Venezuela, the only government of Venezuela with the unity platform which is part of that opposition but it's precisely that part of the opposition that had opted against elections, that had opted for violence. So it's a new moment that we hopefully can all as a country, you know, make use of it to strengthen our political process to leave any, any attempts at disruption that is not based on democracy, on politics and on constitutional order. I think, you know, we already have had two meetings, there's an ongoing meeting that right now and hopefully we'll have some progress. I think from the last meetings it was very important that we had a unified position both government and opposition with regards to Venezuela's claim to the Ezequiel territory in, which is in the border of Uruguayana. And also we had an important agreement in establishing a mechanism for social, part of the table to deal with social concerns for the Venezuelan people, that is the main concern. And we also hope that in this dialogue we can address the unilateral measures that are being imposed on Venezuela and that we can lift them and make sure that, you know, our people are not affected by these measures that have, you know, been creating hardships for all of the Venezuelan people regardless of their political position or regardless of, you know, what they, how they see internal politics. What we're looking for for these elections is a renewal, again, for constitutional mandates for governors and governors, mayors and the assemblies that correspond. I think it's important because, like you said, this group of the opposition is willing to participate. There's going to be international observers, international presence that also will be accompanying this and will once again prove like every time that Venezuela's democratic system is trustworthy and it reflects what the people want. I think the most important thing regardless of the outcomes, regardless of who wins, is that you're going to see, we're going to see more participation. I think people are going to be happy that their options are being represented in the ballot and not, you know, in outside adventures that are, you know, put everybody's lives at risk. What we understand that is, you know, the policy against Venezuela has not changed substantially with regards to lifting of the sanctions, although the aggression or the constant imposing of new sanctions has diminished under this administration. We know that a lot of these, you know, the interests of the United States with Venezuela depends on internal politics of the United States as well. Internal movements, internal disputes, for example, in states like Florida where the Venezuelan policy does have repercussions. I think this is an opportunity and, you know, if we have anything to say for the United States government to take this opportunity to return to diplomacy, to return to a relationship where the two countries can speak to one another with mutual respect rather than having these illegal measures being imposed on the Venezuelan people because they are affecting the great majority of the Venezuelan people in their everyday life. We hope, and like President Maduro has said, our hand is open for dialogue. We hope that this opportunity is taken, whether it be through dialogues, the dialogue in Mexico or elsewhere. What is important is that we avoid this confrontation and we return to diplomacy. The Venezuelan people have not severed ties with the people of the United States. We may not have formal relations, but the fact that we're here, for example, in the South Bronx shows that the people-to-people relationship still exists and is still very strong. And what we want is that that relationship can turn into a respectful relationship between the two governments. you