Press Release: Cuba calls on strengthening the development pillar in the United Nations and the eradication of poverty as its major task.

New York, 22 January 2018. The Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, participated in the first session this year of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). 

In her statement, she expressed Cuba's support for all efforts aimed at strengthening the United Nations development pillar, an issue of vital importance to all developing countries. She added that it is imperative to focus all efforts on the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, as the greatest global challenge and a prerequisite for sustainable development.

Rodríguez Camejo endorsed that the functioning of the United Nations System in its operational activities for development should ensure greater assistance and support for the efforts of Member States in implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

However, he regretted the growing decline in core development resources, and stressed that ending poverty worldwide and achieving sustainable and inclusive development by 2030 will only be possible through a true global partnership for development, based on the principles of global solidarity, shared responsibility and a resource mobilization policy from the donor community, in the framework of which she emphasized that South-South and triangular cooperation is a complement rather than a substitute for North-South cooperation.

Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.