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…
Ernesto Che Guevara, Commander, Minister and head of the Cuban delegation to the nineteenth session of the General Assembly, stated 33 years ago, from this very rostrum:
And, as if he could already see the present, he added:
“Imperialism seeks to convert this meeting into a pointless competition i…
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…
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…
As we who are gathered here deliver our statements, a small and impoverished Caribbean nation is being subjected to military occupation. The inconceivable deal struck with the generals responsible for the coup d’état - yesterday threatened as murderers, but today turned into complacent partners - ig…
