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Nicosia, Cyprus, September 25, 2026. The Cuban ambassador to Cyprus, Rubén Pino Martínez, attended on Thursday the presentation of the “Women’s Contribution Award 'Kleio Christodoulidou and Katina Nicolaou,'” given by the Panchyprian Women’s Movement (POGO), whose tenth edition honours the outstanding Cypriot female activist and leader Skevi Koukouma.

The award ceremony, established by POGO in 2017, marks a special milestone for this Women’s Contribution Award, aiming to highlight the struggles, achievements, and contributions of women in all areas of life; promote female role models; preserve memory; and help challenge the stereotypes that limit women’s choices, status, and participation in our societies.

When honouring her, the Secretary General of the AKEL Party, Stefanos Stefanou, proudly shared that this award is given to Skevi Koukouma for being “a comrade and activist whose work has closely linked her name with the modern woman, with the active fight for women's rights, and with tireless dedication to the women's movement and beyond” (…) “She is,” he said, “a comrade who consciously chose to be on the front line, acting alongside the people, alongside workers, alongside women, alongside every person who fights and struggles for rights, a better life, and dignity. Skevi's path is inseparably tied to POGO and AKEL.”

The United Nations has witnessed the shamelessness and brazenness with which the world's largest military and economic power tries to give lessons on freedom and human rights to the world; but, once again, with hypocrisy and cynicism, it lies.

For that freedom that Cuba has treasured for decades and defends out of conviction, Cubans will have to give everything. Our voices cannot be complicit in the silence and infamy that the deceitful and offensive speech against our homeland by U.S. President Donald Trump intends to establish from the United Nations. Once again, without scruples and with total cynicism, he tries to impose labels and names against our country for no other reason than to tarnish, frustrate, ruin, and reduce to ashes the human and precious work dreamed of by our José Martí and consolidated by Fidel.

In the year of the centenary of his birth, let us turn to his legacy to condemn, as never before, so much barbarity, blackmail, and threats coming from the U.S. government, in its already practiced and recurring foreign policy concerning Cuba.

From the most remote corners of this planet, tarnished these days, from the UN headquarters, let us condemn the overbearing and hostile attitude of that threatening government, which tries to set itself up as the owner and ruler of the world's destinies and to attack sovereign states without scruples, particularly Cuba.