ABN News Service: Venezuela will ask the United Nations Organization (UN) to defend the environment and explain the responsibility the capitalist system has regarding global warming.

Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, Francisco Arias Cardenas made the statement on the occasion of a high level meeting on climatic change called 'The Future is in Our Hands: The Function of Leadership towards Climatic Change' at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Arias Cardenas emphasized that Venezuela currently has a lot to say about the issue and to clearly show the significant responsibility the capitalist system has in environmental decline.  The Venezuelan State also has a lot to say regarding the struggle against desertification.

Likewise, he mentioned Venezuela's support for insular regions, countries in the South Pacific, with donations and resources to alleviate the effects of oceanic level increases, for example, with recovery work in African countries affected by the consequences of drought and climate change and, especially, in cooperation with the countries of the South.

Arias Cardenas considers that these debates are, slowly setting precedents and positions to allow progress in the changes towards the application of measures that help to reverse damage to the atmosphere, the ozone layer and the occurrence of hurricanes and climate warming.

Venezuelan deputy Foreign Minister Jorge Valero will participate in these debates and has planned to offer his ideas financing the answer of climatic change and future investment.

President Hugo Chavez Frias will not attend the UN General Assembly but will, instead, be represented by Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro.