New York, May 13, 2024.- Cuba reiterated, today, at the United Nations, that the admission of Palestine as a Member State of the UN is an urgent need and an essential step to advance towards a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The historical injustice that has prevented Palestinian brothers from participating in the United Nations with equal rights must be reversed, without further delay,” said Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations in the resumed tenth emergency special session of United Nations General Assembly.
Cuba co-sponsored and supported the draft resolution, adopted last Friday in the General Assembly, which recognizes that Palestine meets the requirement to be admitted as a member of the United Nations.
“There are already 144 countries that recognize the State of Palestine, and the number will continue to increase,” the Cuban Ambassador added.
Likewise, Soberón Guzmán demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories; appealed for an end to violence and warlike rhetoric, and called for guaranteeing the provision of urgent and sufficient humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people.
The Permanent Representative also condemned, in the strongest terms, the killing of civilians, especially women, children and humanitarian workers of the United Nations system.
“Those who today oppose, under different pretexts, the end of violence in Gaza as a matter of the greatest urgency, will have to assume responsibility for the serious consequences that this entails,” he reflected.
Before concluding, he asserted that Cuba will continue to contribute in everything within its possiblities to legitimate international efforts to put an end to the barbarism suffered by the Palestinian people.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations