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Jun
25
2019

#Cuba reaffirms its commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights.

PRESS RELEASE

Geneva, June 25, 2019 "Cuba reaffirms its commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights, and confirms to the High Commissioner the support for the mandate of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as the firm will to continue cooperating in the" titanic "task lies ahead".

This statement was made by Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Permanent Representative of Cuba in the General Debate of Item 2: "Oral update of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights”.

Jun
05
2019

The documentary "The enigma of La Coubre" is presented in Geneva

PRESS RELEASE

Geneva, June 3, 2019. "The enigma of La Coubre", a documentary that recalls one of the bloodiest attacks perpetrated by the CIA against the Cuban Revolution, the blasting of La Coubre steam ship, on March 4, 1960, was presented in this city with the presence of its director, Colombian journalist and writer Hernando Calvo Ospina.

Apr
29
2019

The blockade imposed by #US against #Cuba, constitutes the main obstacle to the realization of the right to development of the #Cuban people

Statement by Ambassador Pedro L. Pedroso, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations Office at Geneva and international organizations in Switzerland, at the 20th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development

Geneva, April 29, 2019

Mr. President,

More than 30 years after its adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the effective implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development remains an unfulfilled one.

Oct
14
2018

US hostile rhetoric escalation

Statement by the Director General in charge of the United States, Carlos Fernández de Cossío

The Director General in charge of the United States Carlos Fernández de Cossío alerted that in recent months the US government has escalated its hostile rhetoric against Cuba.  “It makes use of reiterated statements from high level  officials  aimed at manufacturing pretexts that steer toward a climate of greater bilateral tension”, said the official.

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