Jair Bolsonaro Says Amazon is Brazil’s at 74th UN General Assembly

NEW YORK: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took the stage at the ongoing 74th UN General Assembly here for the first since taking office, and insisted that the Brazilian areas of the Amazon Rainforest were sovereign territory. Speaking at the UNGA on Tuesday, the President reiterated his complaints about “exaggeration” and “manipulation” regarding the recent forest fires in the Amazon and also lambasted Cuba and Venezuela for their socialist regimes, reports Efe news. Regarding the massive wildfires, which ecological groups attributed to an alleged lack of action by his government, Jair Bolsonaro insisted that there has been a “disinformation” campaign created by non-governmental organisations and that it had encouraged certain “colonialist” sentiments that persist in the world. Bolsonaro said that Brazil’s “Amazon is bigger than all of Western Europe” and that more than 60 per cent of it is “preserved,” and thus his government “does not accept” the idea that any other country can tell Brazil what it should do to conserve the biomass. In his speech, Bolsonaro also presented a “New Brazil” to the world. (IANS)

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