Sep
07
2017
New York, 7 September 2017. On February 3, 1962, John F. Kennedy - the 35th President of the United States of America - signed Executive Order 3447, through which the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba was formalized. After more than 50 years, this policy, aftermath of the Cold War, remains in force and is rigorously applied, constituting the major obstacle to the development of the Cuban nation.
New York, 7 September 2017.
New York, September 6, 2017. During his intervention at the last meeting of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country at the United Nations, Rolando Vergara Zito, First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the UN, called, once again, to eliminate the policies of restriction of movement to diplomats that United States, as host country of the organization, imposes to representatives of a number of diplomatic Missions.
New York, 30 August 2017.During her intervention at the commemoration of the International Day against Nuclear Tests, the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo, called for the prompt entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which will provide for a legally binding framework for the destruction and total elimination of such weapons in an irreversi
