New York, 7 September 2017. In the general debate held within the framework of the United Nations High-Level Forum on Culture of Peace, Ambassador Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the international organization, called for the end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba as an unequivocal message in favor of peace and the peaceful settlement of disputes.
For Cuba, she said, there can be no culture of peace when powerful states are heard threatening to launch a military intervention in order to overthrow legitimately constituted governments; when hidden change of regime agendas are promoted in developing countries; or when the use of unilateral coercive measures in the conduct of their international relations is admitted without the slightest flush; all these in violation of the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and International Law.
Rodríguez Camejo further argued that for the developing countries to promote a culture of peace is also to strengthen international cooperation, particularly North-South cooperation; to ensure universal access to high quality education; to promote, guarantee and protect all human rights, including the right to development; to spare no effort to eradicate the deep gap that divides human society into rich and poor and the ever-increasing disparity between developed and developing nations.
The Cuban Ambassador seized the opportunity to recall and ratify the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace and its absolute validity in the context of the full implementation of the Declaration and Program of Action on a Culture of Peace.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.