New York, 20 December 2016.- Organized by the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, the UN General Assembly celebrated today in the morning, the Special commemorative event to pay tribute to the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.
New York, 15 December 2016. How may we speak about a culture of peace when the mere existence of nuclear weapons seriously threatens, not only international peace and security, but the survival of the human species in the planet?, inquired the Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, while addressing the Plenary of the United Nations General Assembly during the General Debate of Agenda item “Culture of Peace”.
New York, 12 December 2016.- Following the demise of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, numerous people and groups of solidarity with Cuba, based in this city, have communicated orally and in written form, their unshavering friendship and commitment with our Revolution.
(...) The right of peasants to the land; the right of workers to the fruit of their labor, the right of children to education; the right of the ill to medical and hospital attention; the right of youth to work; the right of students to free, experimental, and scientific education; the right of black people and Indians to "the full dignity of man"; the right of women to civil, social and political equality; the right of the elderly to secure old-age; the right of intellectuals, artists, and scientists to fight, with their works, for a better world; State’s rights to the nationalization of im
(...)Cuba, which does not speak here on behalf of its interests and is not defending a national goal, is willing to contribute to the extent of its means, thousands or tens of thousands of technicians, doctors, teachers, agronomists, hydraulic engineers, mechanical engineers, economists, medium-level technicians qualified workers and so forth.