She also stressed that 17 years after the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action, its full implementation continues to be a pending issue for the enjoyment of full equality of rights for all human beings. In this regard, she acknowledged that the effective implementation of the Durban agreements is a challenge and a moral obligation, not only to solve the serious situations we observe in terms of discrimination in today's world, where manifestations of racism and xenophobia, instead of decreasing, are increasing; but also to pay off the debt owed to the millions of victims of these abominable practices throughout history.
In the Cuban case, she stressed that Cuba's commitment to combating racial discrimination is expressed through the exercise of a widely participatory democracy in which all Cubans, regardless of their origin, color of skin, creed or political opinion, enjoy the same rights, example of which were the last general elections, where 85,65 percent of the more than eight million Cubans with the right to vote went to the polls and expressed, freely, their majority support to the construction and continuous improvement of an economic, political and social project, based on justice, solidarity and well-being of the human beings and an increasingly prosperous and sustainable Socialism.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations