It is urgent to bring an end to Israel’s prolonged genocide against the Palestinian people. The United Nations cannot remain silent in the face of the collective punishment and the grave violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity committed by the Government of Israel as…
Our views on resolution 76/262, entitled “Standing mandate for a General Assembly debate when a veto is cast in the Security Council”, remain valid. Given the gravity of the current situation in the Gaza Strip, Cuba appreciates the convening of today’s meeting.
Despite the fact that on 22 December …
I have the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Group of 77 (G-77) and China.
The G-77 and China recalls with satisfaction the historic day on which we formally adopted the text of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainab…
We align ourselves with the statement to be delivered by Venezuela on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations, and I would also like to highlight the following points in our national capacity.
We live in an increasingly unequal world, with profound social inju…
We thank the People’s Republic of China for convening this open debate of the Security Council. We also thank the invited briefers, Ms. Dilma Rousseff and Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, for their interesting presentations.
The topic takes on great relevance in a context of a multidimensional global crisis, com…
We welcome the presentation of the annual report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for 2022 (see A/78/304) and draft resolution A/78/L.7, introduced by Argentina. We also welcome the presence of Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, at this meeting.
We reiterate Cu…
We welcome your presence, Sir, in your capacity as President of the Security Council, as well as the relevance of the topic selected for this open debate, which is all the more important now in view of the dangerous escalation of actions in the international arena that threaten multilateralism and p…
From the very beginning of the consultation process on draft resolution A/78/L.1, which is before us today, the Group of 77 and
China requested the inclusion in the text of a reference to the critical issue of the imposition of unilateral coercive measures on developing countries, taking into accou…
The Security Council must be reformed in order to effectively fulfil its primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security. Closed meetings continue to prevail. Annual reports on the Council’s work contain only basic descriptive information; decisions that do not address the concer…
We align ourselves with the statement to be delivered by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations.
At the 1996 World Food Summit, the historic leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, denoun…
We align ourselves with the statement to be delivered by the representative of Azerbaijan on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and the statement delivered by the representative of Malaysia in his capacity as Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the …
We thank the President for convening this meeting. We take note of the report of the Peacebuilding Commission (A/77/720), the report of the Secretary- General on the Peacebuilding Fund (A/77/756) and the reports of the Secretary-General on peacebuilding and sustaining peace.
Lasting peace requires …
We welcome the convening of this meeting to debate the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly for the year 2022 (A/77/2). We thank the representative of the United Arab Emirates for introducing the report.
The recent discussions in the framework of negotiations on a draft res…
Our delegation aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations. We wish to make the following remarks in our national capacity.
Cuba is of the view that it is a mist…
For more than 60 years, the Cuban people have been the victim of innumerable terrorist actions that, for the most part, have been planned and organized from the territory of the United States of America, with the support, protection and financing of successive Governments of that country. Because of…
I have the honour of delivering the following statement in explanation of position on behalf of the Group of 77 and China, upon the recommendations of the President of the General Assembly.
At the outset, the Group of 77 and China wishes to thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing…
We thank the Republic of Turkmenistan and Mr. Rashid Meredov, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, for convening today’s high-level debate on the zone of peace, trust and cooperation of Central Asia.
Cuba believes that in order to move toward…
We align ourselves with the statements made by the representatives of Azerbaijan, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and of Senegal, in its capacity as Chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
We welcome the Joint Trilateral Agreem…
We align ourselves with the statements to be delivered by the representatives of Azerbaijan, on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and Venezuela, on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations. We welcome Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and…
First of all, we would like to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Slovakia and Kuwait on their designation as co-facilitators of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform in the current session of the General Assembly. We wish to convey to them our support in continuin…
