Source: Saba News Agency
Speaker of the Parliament, Sheikh Sultan Al-Burkani, participated on Monday in the proceedings of the 149th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and its accompanying meetings, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 13 to 17, with the participation of parliament speakers and representatives of parliamentary delegations from various countries around the world.
In his address to the Assembly, the Speaker of the Parliament said, “Starting from this hall and this international forum, I extend my congratulations to our Yemeni people on the occasion of the 61st anniversary of the blessed October 14 Revolution, which represented a significant shift in our people’s direction and a struggle we pride ourselves on. I am honored to participate on behalf of my country, the Republic of Yemen, and forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, for not beginning my speech with supplications, joy, and expressions of happiness at our gathering here in this important meeting. Forgive me if I meet you with a stern face and a gloomy heart, for I am sad, unable to feign joy.”
He added, “How can I rejoice when I come from a country weighed down by wars, pain, and sorrows imposed by the Houthi militias and their financiers, coming from a region set ablaze, its sky covered with smoke, its land with destruction, blood, and limbs, tears of orphans and widows, the moaning of victims, and the cries of the bereaved, all due to what Israel has been doing for over a year of killing, destruction, ethnic cleansing, and mass genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, now extending to Lebanon, with American blessing and American weaponry that has spared no one from death.”
He pointed out that the axis of evil (Israel and Iran) and their supporters have turned the Middle East into a volcanic crater, a blazing war, and destruction that spares nothing, despite all the feeble plays they pretend to perform; they are the rampant evil destroying the Middle East and our Arab world.
He noted that Israel has undermined the agenda of the session related to using technology and artificial intelligence for the prosperity of life and spreading peace among humans, using it instead as a means to eliminate all chances of peace and to destroy life on earth rather than employing it in service of humanity’s development and welfare. The inhabitants of the planet had hoped these scientific discoveries would provide noble services to the world’s population and not remind us of a new Hiroshima or Nagasaki, showing us day and night the fragments, blood, destruction, and the annihilation of both green and dry in Palestine and Lebanon.
Al-Burkani emphasized the importance of national parliaments waking up early to enact necessary legislation to avoid the risks that might arise from the misuse and vulgarization of artificial intelligence, urging parliaments and governments of countries advanced in this field to close or conceal the doors that widen the gap between their countries and those feeling their way towards progress, to achieve justice and equality within societies. He called on developed countries and international organizations to give utmost importance to enhancing the capabilities of developing countries in this knowledge field, making it truly knowledgeable and in service of humanity, not a means of extermination or destruction of life.
