New York, 3rd August 2023.- Ambassador Gerardo Peñalver Portal, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, addressed, today, the Security Council Open Debate on Famine and conflict-induced food insecurity.
In his remarks, Peñalver Portal stated that the persistence of a profoundly unjust, undemocratic and exclusionary international order together with the current multidimensional global crisis, has led to an exponential growth in poverty, hunger and food insecurity, and contributed to widen the gap between the increasingly wealthy North and the ever poorer and marginalized South.
In this complex context, unilateral coercive measures and illegal blockades, such as the one imposed by the government of United States against Cuba for more than 60 years, are on the rise, the Cuban First Deputy Foreign Minister further explained.
The Caribbean diplomat denounced that the blockade, further intensified by the fraudulent inclusion of Cuba in the arbitrary list of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism, is the main obstacle to the food security of the Cuban people, has an overwhelming impact on all sectors of life and hinders the economic and social development and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
The blockade seriously, flagrantly and systematically violates the human rights of the Cuban people, including the rights to food and development”, added Peñalver Portal.
Cuban Permanent Mission to the United Nations