<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sundararaman Thiagarajan</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sundar2016@gmail.com">sundar2016@gmail.com</a>></span><br><br></div><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span>From: </b><a href="mailto:info@progressive.international" target="_blank">Andrés Arauz</a><br><div class="msg6690551135579502438"><div link="blue" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word" lang="EN-IN"><div class="m_6690551135579502438WordSection1"><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><br></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><table style="width:100.0%;background:#f7f4f1;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background:#f7f4f1;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:450.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" width="600" valign="top"><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:30.0pt 7.5pt 30.0pt 7.5pt" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/1XQbiUZqIgkFRQxQopJGKY4WYLPdvIn5N9S7xAu8ChinA-bQniRxirLxJP4G9jqOKyUGwGv1ozku4IvrYU3BQcw3Vn_w0exmzx2JavdxjT2awpqMK117Bf1KHHk9QZ9cZutLVXc-K9LhkTU1it_UmoRJyejUwsTeluXRZykwEvEfD_nUsAqdixC35jb8pLqvp2Eer_NU2whBKCOt6HU0BX6csm9xLYt52wh4fgC5sIIT3d8MNQeWGHfIa95w6M3LBjQIFmBuDdeMUgedu48oOA/3tb/P10b9FfEQwaEtS6Fp9ir4w/h0/b12KRewWE7bYIKHgeI-yAQzSlvi3eTG6-kh-LbwWA00" target="_blank"></a></span><u></u><u></u><a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/1XQbiUZqIgkFRQxQopJGKY4WYLPdvIn5N9S7xAu8ChinA-bQniRxirLxJP4G9jqOKyUGwGv1ozku4IvrYU3BQcw3Vn_w0exmzx2JavdxjT2awpqMK117Bf1KHHk9QZ9cZutLVXc-K9LhkTU1it_UmoRJyejUwsTeluXRZykwEvEfD_nUsAqdixC35jb8pLqvp2Eer_NU2whBKCOt6HU0BX6csm9xLYt52wh4fgC5sIIT3d8MNQeWGHfIa95w6M3LBjQIFmBuDdeMUgedu48oOA/3tb/P10b9FfEQwaEtS6Fp9ir4w/h0/b12KRewWE7bYIKHgeI-yAQzSlvi3eTG6-kh-LbwWA00" target="_blank"></a><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><div align="center"><table style="width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:450.0pt;background:white;padding:13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt" width="600" valign="top"><div><div><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt" valign="top"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" valign="top"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="color:black"></span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;vertical-align:top" align="center"><span style="color:black;display:none"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;word-break:break-word" valign="top"><p><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#280000">"Economic liberation will not be granted, but must be seized."<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;vertical-align:top" align="center"><span style="color:black;display:none"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;word-break:break-word" valign="top"><p style="line-height:140%"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#280000">- Havana Declaration on the New International Economic Order, 27 January 2023<u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;vertical-align:top" align="center"><span style="color:black;display:none"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div align="center"><table style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;word-break:break-word" valign="top"><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000"><br><br>On 27 January, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">delegates</span> joined  from over 25 countries across the world at the Havana Congress on the New International Economic Order. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000"></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000">From central bankers to foreign ministers, parliamentarians to presidents, the Congress convened a critical high-level debate about dilemmas of our time and charted a course towards a project of collective liberation — one grounded in cooperation, sovereignty, and dignity. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000">At the closing ceremony — alongside Cuba's President Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Rodríguez Parrilla — the Congress issued a historic Declaration that resolves to build a planetary bloc "led by the South and reinforced by the solidarities of the North". <a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/1XQbiUZqIgkFRQxQopJGKY4WYLPdvIn5N9S7xAu8ChiWPQxD11S9RJh13gr9KOeZngj2n1wDpjCkl0FfjvgmMEylTE1H6-3BM8Oyi9f1zFOHchKY5xpc87IvN94t7APUfUYBXDJy1EJevKRWHjGbB-X_-coRN3FsW9MRUrJeYWRhF3r1bzNvgpBAjn4vn3VPw0elVHkYUxUa3bmSdUvj4wvOZurzb9UHRBpfykltF-W5Lfm3ESJKWonC2tlmQceya1fQxjcPvCyaL1K0vprsXAcvCJKzaCUNh7bdDSo5C4PaCtIstmcwM0SzhegXe8Yt9x1xJODqSKyBlf1K8PZrPwEGPlopSWSb80uOA3i4aqIf-E07HbYGYs4c11BQv4TMQ77dfuHUf8zfOWSK12U7eZtKn9qLKrVdJ0r-_D2SWdI/3tb/P10b9FfEQwaEtS6Fp9ir4w/h1/61Hy-zuK5CG66SW5r764cMiYSB0N_uu8rTZBwyzoOp4" target="_blank"><span style="color:#fc164b">You can read the declaration in full by clicking here.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000">The declaration contains five key commitments: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000"><u></u><u></u></span></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#280000;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Renew the Non-Aligned Movement</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">: Resist the siren song of the new Cold War and to renew the project of non-alignment, grounded in the principles of sovereignty, peace, and cooperation.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#280000;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Renovate the NIEO</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">: Renovate the vision for a New International Economic Order fit for the 21st century, drawing inspiration from the original Declaration, while accounting for the key issues — from digital technology to environmental breakdown — that define the present conditions for sovereign development.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#280000;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Assert Southern Power</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">: Through the collective action of the South, work to form new and alternative institutions to share critical technology, tackle sovereign debt, drive development finance, face future pandemics together, and coordinate positions on international climate action and the protection of national sovereignty over the extraction of natural resources.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#280000;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:16.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Accompany Cuba in the G77</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">: The Congress recognizes the critical opportunity afforded by Cuba’s presidency of the Group of 77 plus China to lead the South out of the present crisis and channel the lessons of its Revolution toward concrete proposals and ambitious initiatives to transform the broader international system.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#280000;line-height:16.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Build a Planetary Bloc</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">: The Congress calls on all peoples and nations of the world to join in this struggle to definitively achieve the New International Economic Order; to build a planetary bloc led by the South and reinforced by the solidarities of the North.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000">We invite you to read the <a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/1XQbiUZqIgkFRQxQopJGKY4WYLPdvIn5N9S7xAu8ChiWPQxD11S9RJh13gr9KOeZngj2n1wDpjCkl0FfjvgmMEylTE1H6-3BM8Oyi9f1zFOHchKY5xpc87IvN94t7APUfUYBXDJy1EJevKRWHjGbB-X_-coRN3FsW9MRUrJeYWRhF3r1bzNvgpBAjn4vn3VPw0elVHkYUxUa3bmSdUvj47tjR5T-LNwPgBPJ_mpQrQTwqLwcDlMRqSO3cyuCG3-1Xjt8wEw2pY_ygaIYGH6WUH674qubaHykgaUkNIHrdnBHWwzrpEV_ipV89aV8ITTfg22s-UA9GLu8cGd-dCXCcHdysh0lK5w0YLfFxmmBUfbOzYIJOcTQg2DIHJxV-7pd_6Bke7sBWxLhpp8iN36gRVdL-I2VPkRP5FMQ5XaUhow/3tb/P10b9FfEQwaEtS6Fp9ir4w/h2/GZKK2Y9KA9aaCx1oiJOiJ_Sx1gakvfbY37c9OXw92SQ" target="_blank"><span style="color:#fc164b">full declaration</span></a> and reflect on the commitments it sets out. If you would like to stay up to date on our work on the New International Economic Order, you can sign up for updates <a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/P8Elou2Rvc0qoMPEUZrMXSJMIZoLGlotp06qrii8qlEX6RyC-urJ-_w8ddlE44MbCIvWL3wDoRwiDIR55XV9LAr0DRIV7M3EFQhIj3TIBHDyjiX9olq5CnyG1yAOlHBZSzZpxeEgVVXqwB-i3sBMY-a6HZ6cWhcK8Y63mtnuuwyRzLeZpASp6s3nNrkMqTX0SHoA_DfgALxE8W_3Ts041Uj0qexB7k_mWbrhxqeAf3J72iBUc2W7Cs2cgWjvGEngjYXs-H-hW03b_r1Ppc7Gsg/3tb/P10b9FfEQwaEtS6Fp9ir4w/h3/LAxxueG8ppDC1oq7EjzPZVS0q5l3NmHo0lCuOSdxch8" target="_blank"><span style="color:#fc164b">here</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:120%"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280000">This is only the first step in a long process where, working together, we breathe life into these projects and principles. <br><br>In solidarity,<br><br><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Andrés Arauz</span></b></span><br>
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