Bolsonaro announced he would go to the UN General Assembly without being vaccinated

The Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, has confirmed that he will travel to New York on Sunday to participate, from Tuesday 21, in the opening of the United Nations General Assembly (UN), despite you have not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus, a condition to attend the international meeting.

“I travel on Sunday, I give the opening speech Tuesday and I return,” said the president, without alluding to the controversy that exists in The United Nations on vaccination against covid-19, which is required by New York City Council, where the agency’s headquarters are located, AFP news agency reported.

The HIM HIM He stressed that as a body led by the Member States, it cannot impose conditions on the rulers, but that in any case it is studying the possibility of responding to the concerns of the authorities in New York, which in turn have no control over the premises.

According to Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the compulsory nature of the vaccine cannot be imposed Bolsonaro in his capacity as Head of State, although the diplomatic staff accompanying him will comply with this requirement.

Bolsonaro lead a vaccine denialist movement by arguing that they are experimental and that their application is not mandatory, in addition to minimizing the severity of the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, despite the fact that Brazil is the second country in the world in number of infections and cumulates more than 21 million deaths due to the disease.

However, the president of the far right did not get vaccinated and he has repeatedly stated that he would be “the last” Brazilian to do so, if he ever did.

On Tuesday, he assured that he would be in the HIM HIM to “show the truths, the realities of Brazil and what it represents for the world”, without giving details of his speech, which in his capacity as Brazilian president, and as it is tradition, will be the one who will inaugurate the General assembly.

The only point he has already made and will address in his statement will be a debate on the ancestral rights of indigenous Brazilians over the lands that exist in Brazil and is the subject of a Supreme Court judgment.

In this process, the so-called “temporary framework” is deliberate, which recognizes as indigenous lands only those that the original peoples occupied on October 5, 1988, when the current Brazilian Constitution was promulgated.

The natives argue that this thesis puts an end to their “ancestral rights” and would favor the legalization of areas occupied before that date by landowners who forcibly evicted their original inhabitants over the decades.