The aggression which Israel is perpetrating against Lebanon must be halted immediately and the occupied territories must be returned. The Security Council must reaffirm all the provisions of resolution 425 (1978) and take the measures necessary to bring about its implementation.
The situation of ac…
We could go into an interminable discussion in this setting. This is not Cuba’s intention. What is curious and really alarming is to hear a country such as the United States say that another country is in violation of international laws.
Five minutes would not be enough for me to simply recite the …
We, too, had hoped to hear something different from the United States delegation. Or, to be more precise, all of us could have hoped to hear a different sort of statement from that delegation. Its statement shows clearly, once again, that the United States wishes to present the events to the interna…
The Government of Cuba has requested the resumption of this session of the General Assembly in order to provide information regarding the events surrounding the repeated violation of our sovereignty by aircraft originating from United States territory, and also to give notice to the international co…
Thirty-five years ago, in this very Chamber, a United States Ambassador presented photographs and evidence of Cuban military aircraft alleged to have rebelled against our Government and bombed airports in Cuba. A few days later the President of the United States took it upon himself to refute this a…
We have just adopted the programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, which is of special importance for the United Nations and for the international community in general, for without question it is a budget of change.
It is a budget of change because concepts are changed; they now seem to be corpo…
I should like to congratulate Oman on its presidency of the Security Council, and I should like also to extend our best wishes to the Russian Federation as it presides over the Council.
Recently the General Assembly devoted two days of plenary meetings to a debate on the report of the Security Coun…
As a member of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, Cuba supports the statement made by the representative of Brazil on behalf of the Group.
Today, in discussing the item of special emergency assistance for the economic recovery and reconstruction of Burundi, we need once again to call…
The Cuban delegation wishes to explain its position on resolution 50/70 Q, “1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons”, whose adoption was recommended by the First Committee in its report in document A/50/590 and Corr.1.
The Cuban …
The item entitled “Question of Palestine” has been on the agenda of the General Assembly for many years. Consideration of this item at the fiftieth session is particularly important and significant in view of the special background against which it is set, namely a constantly evolving and changing r…
The practice of presenting the report of the Security Council to the General Assembly, reinstituted appropriately by the Permanent Mission of Brazil in 1993, has become increasingly important, not only for the work of the Council, but also for all the Members of the Organization, which are increasin…
The question of equitable representation on and
Cuba believes that the necessary restructuring of the Security Council should be in line with the realities and demands of an Organization which, 50 years after its inception, has undergone profound changes in many respects. This should be done, first…
It is quite a paradox that in the midst of the celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, and for the fourth consecutive year, my country finds itself once again obliged to condemn one of the most flagrant acts of aggression ever committed against any people. This act is all th…
The item entitled “Report of the Secretary- General on the work of the Organization” is, in our opinion, one of the most important of the current session. We therefore thank the Secretary-General for his work in that regard.
On the threshold of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Organi…
There is nothing new in the newspapers these days: “Ethnic tensions growing in various parts of the world”; “Violence claims a three-year-old victim”; “Concerns increase over new outbreaks of dengue fever”; “Fighting continues in the Baltic”; “Young man commits suicide after killing his parents, his…
Any effort in favour of peace will always receive the support of the Republic of Cuba. This is our historic vocation. A just peace is the keenest aspiration of the Cuban people. Any effort towards the integration of what José Martí called “our America” will always find Cuba ready to set aside the in…
My delegation joined in the consensus adoption of resolution 64/235, entitled “Institutionalization of the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force”, because of the importance that Cuba attaches to agenda item 115 on the United Nations Global Counter- Terrorism Strategy, and in particular because…
Allow me at the outset to express my delegation’s support for the statement made by the representative of Algeria on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The political sensitivity of the issue before us is obvious. However, we are holding this discussion in the midst of confusion over content and p…
The framing of the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel had an important leitmotif: the urgent need for an appropriate legal framework for guaranteeing the status and security of such personnel as they carry out their duties. Imbued with this legitimate concern, my del…
The item, “Question of Palestine”, has been under consideration by this Organization practically since its inception and it has permanently influenced our activities. Even if this year is no exception, we can congratulate ourselves that it has started to undergo a certain qualitative change as a res…
