We thank the Secretary-General for the presentation of his annual report (A/65/1). The report acknowledges the complex world situation, in particular with regard to the devastating effects of the global economic and financial crisis. As the Secretary-General points out, the measures taken to stimula…
The delegation of Cuba wishes to thank the Secretary- General for his report on the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (A/64/818). We also wish to laud the efforts of the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen, as facilitator of t…
First of all, Cuba would like to express its condolences to the victims of the serious disaster which recently occurred in Pakistan as a result of intense rain which has caused the heaviest flooding of the past 80 years. This has affected nearly the entire territory of that brotherly nation. The ext…
It is my honour to address this commemorative meeting of the General Assembly on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples on behalf of the Chair of the Special Committee on Decolonization.
The Declaration, adopted by the United Na…
Crime prevention continues to be of high priority in the current international situation. Transnational crime is of concern to us all. All countries — regardless of their economic power, territorial size or number of inhabitants — are vulnerable to the various manifestations of crime, including its …
If there is to be any hope of success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the world must join together in a great alliance, as called for in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted in 2001. A decade later, we note with concern that, despite the huge efforts of many countries, international org…
I will be brief. What the representative of the United States has just said is exactly what the Cuban delegation is saying. Mr. Luis Posada Carriles, a well- known and self-confessed international terrorist, continues to be prosecuted for lesser crimes relating to immigration in this country. I wond…
I would like to thank the Chairs of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004) for the information they have provided.
Cuba condemns all acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all their forms and manifestations wherever, by whomever and against …
We commend the Russian Federation for its initiative to convene this special solemn meeting of the General Assembly to mark the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War and in commemoration of all
victims of the war. The Second World War was the greatest tragedy of the twentieth c…
Cuba supports the statement made by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. This meeting is an appropriate occasion for the international community to reaffirm its support for the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people in their struggle to exercise their inalienable righ…
I wish to convey the condolences of the Cuban people and Government to the Haitian people and Government, the countries that have suffered the loss of their nationals in the earthquake in Haiti, and the United Nations family.
The United Nations is facing a new challenge. Assistance to the brotherly…
My delegation associates itself with the statements made by the representative of Algeria, on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement, and by the representative of Mexico, on behalf of the Rio Group. I should like to add some remarks on this item.
First of all, I should like to thank the Co-Chairs of th…
We thank the Chairmen of the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), for the information they provided.
On numerous occasions, our country has submitted to the Security Council detailed information on terrorist acts against Cuba perpetrated by variou…
The Cuban delegation associates itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) (see A/64/PV.41) and supports the adoption of the important draft resolution that declares 18 July as Nelson Mandela International Day (A/64/L.13). Cuba…
The bloody historical chapters written by the transatlantic slave trade, which are undeniably part of our contemporary history, can be neither justified nor ignored. In Cuba, as in almost the entire Latin American continent and the West Indies, we can clearly see the traces of the slave trade, the f…
The San Francisco Charter laid the basis for what would become a new system of international relations to prevent the recurrence of the terrible experiences of the two world wars of the twentieth century. The fundamental goal set out in its first paragraph is to save succeeding generations from the …
Cuba attaches great importance to consideration by the General Assembly of the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, known as the Goldstone report (A/HRC/12/48). The report of the Fact-Finding Mission is an objective document of the utmost juridical rigour drafted w…
Today, we recall the efforts of the international community 15 years ago, when we set ourselves commendable goals to improve the lives of all people and to pursue development. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development was a turning point in international debates on population. …
We thank the Secretary-General for presenting his annual report on the work of the Organization (A/64/1). We agree with its accurate analysis of the current situation of the world, plunged into an acute economic and financial crisis with devastating effects
for all countries, in particular for the …
I should like at the outset to endorse the statement made by the delegation of the United Republic of Tanzania on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.
The World Summit for Social Development had the virtue of strengthening the recognition of the human being as the subject and end of any development…
