Oct
14
2017
New York, October 13, 2017. In an environment where arts and music transported those present to Cuba, the #UnblockCuba exhibit was inaugurated at the Center for Cuban Studies in the City of New York. The exhibit showed the three award winning posters and other fifteen best works of the international Poster Contest bearing the same name, which official announcement was made in May of this year by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba and the National Design Office of Cuba.
New York, October 13, 2017. During her statement on Item 138 of the agenda of the United Nations Fifth Committee, entitled “Improving the Financial Situation of the United Nations”, Cuban Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodriguez Abascal, Cuba’s Deputy Permanent Representative to that institution, thanked the recognition received --together with other 30 countries-- for having fulfilled all their financial obligations to the Organization.
New York, October 13, 2017. Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, ensuring free medical care for the entire population of the country has been an inviolable principle for the Cuban state and government, for which the health of its citizens is essential. Therefore, the purpose of subjugating the Cuban people through starvation and disease as a way of violating their right to self-determination has not been effective.
New York, October 13, 2017.During her statement on item 17 of the agenda of the UN Second Commission on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodriguez Abascal, stated that progress in connectivity, innovation and access to ICTs do not reach everyone equally, with a large digital divide remaining among and within count
