Allow me first of all to convey to you, Sir, my delegation’s congratulations on the excellent manner in which you have guided the work of the Council throughout this month. We are doubly satisfied, since you represent a country that is united with Cuba by deep ties of friendship and fraternity.
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Cuba has this year once again joined the consensus on the draft resolution on assistance in mine action, contained in document A/56/L.63/Rev.1.
Our support for the draft reflects our genuine desire to contribute, to the extent possible, to addressing the humanitarian consequences of the irresponsib…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States to welcome the admission of the Republic of Montenegro as the 192nd State Member of the United Nations. We welcome the presence at this very special meeting of the delegation of the Republic of Montenegro, heade…
The delegation of Cuba has again this year voted in favour of the resolution on the annual report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Our support reflects the great importance that Cuba attaches to the Agency’s work.
As we said in the debate on this subject some weeks ago, Cuba highly…
Once again, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has brought us to the Security Council. This is a real war in which an occupying army, equipped with weapons of the latest technology, is decimating a heroic and defenceless people. The root cause of this situation is to be found in I…
Sport and the Olympic ideal undoubtedly contribute to better understanding and mutual comprehension, as well as to the development and strengthening of friendship and fraternity among peoples, which are indispensable to the promotion of peace, cooperation among nations and the harmonious development…
Once again, we have come together in this Assembly to address the question of Palestine. Precisely one year ago, as we celebrated the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we expressed our profound concern at the outset of a new and deplorable chapter in the history of assault…
Some peculiar news has travelled around the world in recent days. For the first time ever in over 40 years, the Government of the United States has granted exceptional authorization for the sale to Cuba of certain quantities of food, medicines and raw materials for production. On this sole occasion,…
Before delivering my statement, I would like to express our condolences to the United States, the Dominican Republic and other countries represented here that have lost citizens among the many passengers and crew members who perished in yesterday’s tragic crash of American Airlines flight 587, and I…
We are beginning the millennium with the celebration of the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations, an excellent initiative that we owe to President Khatami of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet this is also the year of the barbarous terrorist acts of 11 September, and the one in which t…
In recent years, this has been one of the agenda items on which the greatest number of delegations have participated. During the fifty-fifth session, we heard over 110 statements and the number is very high again this year. That is evidence of the priority importance attached to this item. The reaso…
I would like to begin by thanking Mr. Mohamed ElBaradei for his introduction to the annual report on the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). I would also like to congratulate him on his well-deserved election to a second term as Director General of the IAEA and to convey to him Cu…
We thank Ambassador Ryan of Ireland for his introduction of the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly (A/56/2). Our thanks go also to the other members of the Security Council, as well as to the Council secretariat for its work in preparing the report.
Despite numerous criti…
In a speech delivered just two days ago before 100,000 countrymen, President Fidel Castro stated:
“The unanimous shock suffered by all peoples of the world on 11 September in the face of the insane terrorist attacks against the American people has created exceptional conditions for the eradication …
Let me note that the full text of my statement is available to delegations; to save time and to spare the interpreters, I shall summarize it now.
History has shown that a truly effective conflict prevention strategy cannot succeed without steps being taken to fight poverty, underdevelopment and eco…
I was saying that the funds used for alleged compensation payment to families of perpetrators of terrorist acts against Cuba constitute direct encouragement of those operations. The next President of the United States — when we finally know who he is — will have the dilemma of maintaining the impuni…
I have not heard a single valid argument. We have little time, but many truths must be told. I will refute what has been said with several examples.
First, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) organized and carried out hundreds of acts of aggression and terrorism against Cuba, including the invasi…
The resolution that has just been adopted by the General Assembly is extremely important. It reaffirms the need for the General Assembly fully to exercise its functions in taking effective and strong
action in the struggle against international terrorism, including the negotiation of a comprehensiv…
As it has done in the case of similar draft resolutions in previous years, the delegation of Cuba joined the consensus on the draft resolution contained in document A/55/L.44/Rev.2. As is well known, since the early years of their consideration, resolutions on this question have focused on demining …
