New York, February 15, 2024.- Cuba was re-elected as vice president of the Bureau of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, which confirms the renewed trust placed on the country, according to the first vice minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Peñalver Portal.
In his speech, the Permanent Representative of the Caribbean nation to the United Nations ratified his country's commitment to this responsibility.
"Like the Cuban ambassadors and representatives who preceded us, we will work with great commitment, with great zeal to offer all our efforts to carry out the mission that has been assigned to us by the General Assembly in the area of decolonization," he said. .
Peñalver recalled that, more than 60 years after the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, there are still territories subjected to this type of domination.
In that sense, he ratified Cuba's claim for the right of the people of Puerto Rico to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence.
Likewise, he confirmed Cuba's decision not to give up its efforts to work to advance decolonization and to banish from international relations the scourge of colonialism and the colonial practices that still persist.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations