Quotes of the speech of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, at UNGA, New York, Sept. 26th 2018.
The US blockade "seeks to suffocate the Cuban economy in order to generate hardships and disrupt the constitutional order. It is a cruel policy, punishing Cuban families and the entire Nation.It is the most comprehensive and long-standing system of economic sanctions ever implemented against any country. It has been and continues to be a major obstacle to the country's development and to the realization of the aspirations to progress and well-being of several generations of Cubans."
"On behalf of the Cuban people, I would like to thank this General Assembly for the virtually unanimous rejection to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against my country."
"We shall continue to tirelessly demand the end of the cruel economic, commercial and financial blockade, the return of the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base and adequate compensation to our people for the thousands of dead and disabled and forthe economic and property damages caused to Cuba over so many years of aggression."
"The principles of foreign policy will remain unchanged. As the First Secretary of our Party, Raul Castro Ruz, said on his statement on the occasion of the 70 anniversary of the United Nations, and Iquote: "the international community will always be able to count on the Cuba's sincere voice against injustice, inequality, underdevelopment, discrimination and manipulation; and for the establishment of a fairer and more equitable international order, whose center is placed, really on the human being, its dignity and wellbeing".