My delegation joined the consensus on resolution 53/206 on the proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2000-2001, which we have just adopted.
However, my delegation would like to make a few brief comments, particularly in connection with some concerns expressed by my delegation during th…
I should like to request that the full text of my statement be distributed, as it attempts to contribute to our thinking on this issue and contains a few proposals. I shall simply read a summary of it now.
Fifty years ago the General Assembly gathered to adopt, by a vote of 48 States in favour and …
It is a great honour for me to address the General Assembly as it begins its consideration of the question of the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. In my capacity as Acting Chairman of the Special Committee on the Situation with rega…
The ninth day of December this year will mark the passage of 50 years since the historic adoption by the Member States of the United Nations of a legally binding international instrument on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. In this regard, in view of the solemnity of the occasi…
The Assembly's debate on the report of the
Having participated actively in the debate and in the negotiation of the proposals in the Joint Coordinating Committee of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and in the Group of 77 and China, the Cuban delegation fully supports the statement made by the …
My delegation joined in the consensus in adopting resolution 53/31. One element of utmost importance to us in studying and assessing this draft resolution was that it endorsed the right of peoples to choose their own economic, political or social system.
Cuba considers that it is solely up to State…
The Security Council is not democratic and must be democratized. The imperial and anachronistic privilege of the veto must disappear. The Council increasingly endows itself with new mandates in flagrant
The substantive reasons that obstruct Security Council reform are the same ones that dictate the…
As humankind prepares to embark upon a new millennium, any initiative that can in one way or another contribute to promoting the process of peace and reconciliation in the Middle East must receive unswerving support. Therefore, in the view of the Cuban delegation, the inclusion of a new item entitle…
My delegation thanks the Secretary-General for his report on strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations. Our thanks go also to the Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello. Moreover, my delegation endors…
The delegation of Cuba voted in favour of draft resolution A/53/L.18 because we feel that the substance of the text focuses on the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, an agency that in our view makes an important contribution to developing countries in the sphere of the peaceful uses of …
It is an honour for me to address the Assembly in support of the draft resolution on granting observer status for the Association of Caribbean States in the General Assembly.
We are addressing this issue because of the links of friendship and solidarity that have historically tied the people of Cub…
Blind and deaf, the United States of America continues to ignore the demands made by this Assembly for six successive years to put an end to its long, harsh and merciless economic, commercial and financial war against Cuba.
Year after year, the mandate of humanity has been as follows: in 1992, 59 v…
Allow me first of all to thank the Secretary- General for the new report submitted this year; like those
There can be no doubt that, as the Secretary-General states in his report on the work of the Organization, more than a decade after the end of the cold war
“the contours of the new era remain p…
The Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, which my country is honoured to coordinate during the month of September, recognizes Mrs. Sadako Ogata’s distinguished contribution at the head of United Nations refugee activities during the last eight years. Our region is aware of the complexity of…
On this occasion I will not have to wait until tomorrow. Once again we have been given an American lesson in dual morality. The United States does not pay the United Nations and wants to lead it. It speaks of democracy and acts as an empire. It talks a great deal about human rights and violates thos…
We do not need to wait 24 hours to respond; we have had these arguments for over 40 years.
What we have witnessed is the height of the purest cynicism. The fact that the United States asked for the floor to respond to Cuba’s arguments does not surprise us; we were expecting that. It does not surpri…
“To be or not to be.”
Never before has Shakespeare’s famous dilemma been so valid. Half the world is shuddering with the collapse of the stock exchanges, from Tokyo to Rio, from Moscow to Buenos Aires, from London to Johannesburg, and even right here in New York. We, the other half, are also shudde…
I should like to congratulate you, Sir, on your recent election to the presidency of the fifty-third session of the General Assembly, and to wish you success in your work. I wish also to associate myself with the statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Al…
My delegation joins other delegations, Mr. President, in thanking you for your efforts towards the adoption of the decision on which the General Assembly has just taken action.
We too are somewhat concerned about the adoption of a text in this way: on the basis of a document that has not yet been f…
