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STORY: UNGA80 / COLOMBIA
TRT: 02:49
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22, 23 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
22 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
23 SEPTEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro walks up to the GA rostrum
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro, President, Colombia:
“They say the missiles fired in the Caribbean were meant to stop drugs. It is a lie, uttered here on this very site. 2023 and 2024 were the years where the most cocaine was seized and more than 700 drug lords were extradited to the United States and Europe. I extradited them. And the cocaine was seized by my government. And we didn't fire a single missile or kill any young people.”
4. Wide shot, United States delegation gets ready to leave
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro, President, Colombia:
“I don't know if Trump knows that his foreign policy toward Colombia, Venezuela and the Caribbean is advised by Colombians who are political allies of the cocaine mafia. I myself denounced these drug trafficking paramilitary politicians.”
6. Pan right, United States delegation leaves the hall
7. Various shots, GA
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro, President, Colombia:
“Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the United States. This includes the senior official who gave the order, President Trump, who allowed missiles to be fired at young people.”
9. Wide shot, Petro at the GA rostrum
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro, President, Colombia:
“Humanity cannot allow another day of genocide, nor allow genocide perpetrators like Netanyahu nor his allies in the United States and Europe to remain free. The United Nations must ensure respect for international courts of justice.”
11. Wide shot, Petro at the GA rostrum
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Petro, President, Colombia:
“That is why I invite the nations of the world, and their peoples in particular, as part of humanity, to unite armies and weapons. Palestine must be liberated. I invite the Asian armies, of the Slavic peoples who defeated Hitler with such heroism, to the Latin American armies of Bolivar, of Garibaldi, who also had one in Italy, of Martí, of Artigas, of Santa Cruz. We heard too many words already; it is the hour of the sword.”
13. Wide shot, delegates applauding
The President of Colombia Gustavo Petro today (23 Sep) called for criminal proceedings to be opened against those responsible for the recent bombings of three alleged drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean, including “the senior official who gave the order, President Trump.”
Addressing the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, Petro said, “they say the missiles fired in the Caribbean were meant to stop drugs. It is a lie.”
He told the Assembly that, “2023 and 2024 were the years where the most cocaine was seized and more than 700 drug lords were extradited to the United States and Europe,” from Colombia, adding, “and we didn't fire a single missile or kill any young people.”
The US delegation walked out of the Hall during the speech.
Petro said, “I don't know if Trump knows that his foreign policy toward Colombia, Venezuela and the Caribbean is advised by Colombians who are political allies of the cocaine mafia.”
Turning to the situation in Gaza, he said, “humanity cannot allow another day of genocide, nor allow genocide perpetrators like Netanyahu nor his allies in the United States and Europe to remain free. The United Nations must ensure respect for international courts of justice.”
The President of Colombia invited “the nations of the world, and their peoples in particular, as part of humanity, to unite armies and weapons,” and said, “Palestine must be liberated.”
Petro said, “we heard too many words already, it is the hour of the sword.”
