Cuba takes note of the report of the Security Council (A/67/2) and notes with concern that it continues to be fundamentally stuck in descriptive mode, lacking the analytic focus that Member States need for an in-depth assessment of its work. In that connection, my delegation insists on the need for …
Cuba attaches the highest importance to the theme of today’s debate. Africa, a vastly rich continent, continues to face obstacles to development that are unacceptable. Rhetorical proclamations of support for the continent are followed by the sad reality that, to take just one example, African countr…
Cuba firmly supports the collective efforts of the United Nations to combat terrorism. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (resolution 60/288) is a milestone in the international battle against this scourge, and assigns the General Assembly the central role in those efforts. Cuba re…
Cuba is continuing to follow with the greatest attention the events occurring in the Syrian Arab Republic. The news and information available are incomplete, fragmentary and often manipulated. The calls to violence, military aggression and foreign intervention advocated by the media and high-level o…
Cuba reaffirms that humanitarian assistance should be carried out in full respect for the principles recognized in resolution 46/182 and the principles of humanity,
impartiality and neutrality. The request and consent of States in need of humanitarian assistance are essential for the implementation…
I thank the Chairs of the three Committees for the information provided. Our country, as all know, strictly fulfils the provisions of resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), and will continue to do so.
Cuba reiterates its firm commitment to fighting terrorism and its deepest rejection…
Only yesterday, 10 October, our island commemorated a central event in the formation of the Cuban nation.
We celebrated the beginning, in 1868, of our first war of independence. That historic event was marked by one of the most transcendental acts of justice in our history, when Carlos Manuel de Cé…
With respect to the report of the Credentials Committee (A/66/360), which has just been presented to us, my delegation would like to recall that foreign intervention and military aggression carried out by NATO have worsened the conflict in Libya and have prevented the people of that sister nation fr…
I thank the Chairs of the Committees for the information they have provided. The three Committees have carried out commendable work that Cuba values and closely follows. My country, as all know, complies strictly with its obligations under resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004).
Cuba …
It is a pleasure to see you, Mr. President, presiding over the work of the Council for the month of May.
The protection of civilians in armed conflicts is an issue of indisputable significance. At this meeting, we would have preferred to have had this year’s report of the Secretary-General on the t…
The Cuban delegation wishes to briefly explain its position on resolution 65/276, which has just been adopted. Although I shall not go into detail about the underlying substance of the resolution, I will make some necessary clarifications.
In spite of the motion for postponement that had been made …
Cuba fully shares the international concern over the deaths of civilians in Libya and stands in support of a peaceful and sovereign solution of the conflict by the Libyan people, without foreign interference or intervention. We follow with concern the repeated statements of United States and Europea…
The consequences of climate change and environmental imbalance, which are the direct result of the predatory actions of humankind and of the lack of commitment by some States to address the situation, have led to a sustained increase in natural disasters. The economic cost of such disasters is risin…
The matter addressed in the resolution 65/94, which we have just adopted, is of great importance to the Member States of the Organization, in particular developing countries. Given the circumstances the world now finds itself in, the very existence of the United Nations is at stake.
The choices are…
Cuba aligns itself with the statement made by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
On this occasion, when we are celebrating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, it is timely that the international community
reaffirms its support for …
Given the reports that we have submitted to it, the Security Council is very familiar with the case of the well known, self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is responsible for the mid-air explosion of a Cubana de Aviación plane with 73 people on board. He is also responsible for many ac…
Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on the way in which you have been steering the work of the Security Council this month.
I will speak for less than four minutes. I thank the Chairmen of the Committees for the information provided, which informs us about the work they are carrying out. C…
I thank Ambassador Sihasak Phuangketkeow, President of the Human Rights Council, for his briefing on the Council’s annual report (A/65/53). The establishment of the Human Rights Council five years ago resulted from the urgent need to address the discredit in which the Commission on Human Rights, cau…
On 10 October our country commemorated the beginning of the first war of independence, in 1868. This historic event, which marked forever the course of our national history, was accompanied by one of the most momentous acts of justice in our history: Carlos
Manuel de Céspedes, the father of the Cub…
I marvel at seeing how the Permanent Representative of Sweden, representative of a supposedly civilized and incorruptible country, assumes the right to judge other countries — always poor and underdeveloped countries of the South — on the issue of human rights. The Ambassador spoke, judged, handed …
