New York, 25 July 2017. At the Open Debate of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Cuba reiterated today its deep concern about the situation in the region and insisted upon paying off the historic debt to the Palestinian State and restoring the inalienable rights of its people violated by Israel for half a century of occupation.
While remembering fragments and validity of the statement made by the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, called on the Security Council to take concrete measures to end this historic injustice by urgently putting an end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and other Arab territories since 1967.
The Cuban representative considered that a two-state solution and a comprehensive, just, peaceful and lasting settlement of the Palestinian question will not be possible as long as Israel continues to violate its obligations under international law and the Charter of the United Nations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. Likewise, on behalf of Cuba she demanded the end of the occupation of the Syrian Golan.
While ensuring that Cuba will continue to defend the right of Palestinians to self-determination, to have a free, independent and sovereign state, as well as to become a full member of the United Nations Organization, Rodríguez Abascal hoped that in the context of the fiftieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation, the tenth anniversary of the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the Security Council will live up to its responsibility and debt to the Palestinian people.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations