We welcome your presence, Mr. President, as the General Assembly prepares for the high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS and on what we propose to do on that issue in coming years.
My delegation will examine the President’s proposal and will respond through the Chairman of the Group of Latin American and C…
When the 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60/1) was adopted, our delegation clearly indicated its dissatisfaction with the section on various questions related to the international development agenda. We made clear our reservations with respect to the text of the outcome document, whose adoptio…
My delegation’s explanation of vote will refer to draft resolution A/60/L.38. Cuba considers with special attention the question of humanitarian assistance. If one lives in a region where climatic occurrences are increasingly frequent and each time leave behind greater destruction, then efforts in t…
My delegation, as a sponsor of draft resolution A/60/L.26, wishes to make clear that our statement is of a general nature.
Ever since the triumph of the Cuban revolution, international cooperation has been one of the pillars of our country’s foreign policy. The strengthening of this
important aspe…
My delegation deeply regrets the fact that the delegation of the Czech Republic persists in its false accusations.
With regard to cooperation with United Nations human rights mechanisms, our country, as is well documented, has always cooperated with all those thematic mechanisms of the Office of th…
An old comic tells the story of a rabbit that, protected by hunters, was able to tame lions. Then one day, confronted by one of the great felines without his usual protectors, he was devoured on the spot. Apparently, the regime misgoverning the Czech Republic is now, with regard to Cuba, playing the…
Before the General Assembly takes action on the draft resolution before it, my delegation wishes to state its position on the document that is to be adopted as programme 19 of the strategic framework for the biennium 2006-2007.
First of all, Cuba is astonished that a serious debate on this issue wa…
In joining in the support given to the draft resolution submitted by Qatar on behalf of the Group of 77, the delegation of Cuba would like to welcome
the adoption of a resolution that is designed to draw attention to events that the Chairman of our Group and the delegation of Benin have conducted t…
I shall be brief, as it is not my delegation’s intention to take up more of the precious time of delegations present in this Hall.
I regret to have to remind the Czech representative that those to whom she refers as
defenders of human rights are merely mercenaries in the service of a foreign power…
In its exercise of the right of reply, my delegation regrets the role of judge of others that the Czech Republic has assumed for itself without being concerned about the beam in its own eye. It would have been more responsible for that delegation — instead of listing countries with supposed problems…
Our delegation would like to point out that our joining the consensus for the adoption of draft resolution A/58/L.39 devoted to strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations does not mean that we endorse, in the wording of the draft resolution, the use of …
I would like join other speakers in thanking the Chinese delegation for having introduced this initiative, of which my country has been a sponsor since its introduction.
Meeting here, our heads of State and Government proposed in the Millennium Summit Declaration that we enhance our citizens’ healt…
