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Dec

15

2016

Press Release: Cuba/71 UNGA: “Peace is not only a goal to achieve but also a paramount objective to preserve”.

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”.

Dec

12

2016

Press Release: More expressions of solidarity with Cuba and Fidel in New York.

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.

Dec

10

2016

Fidel Castro & Human Rights/ First statement at the UN General Assembly, September 26th 1960.

(...) 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

Dec

10

2016

Fidel Castro & Human Rights/ Statement at the UN General Assembly, in capacity of NAM President, 12 October, 1979.

(...)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.

Dec

10

2016

#LegadodeFidel Fidel Castro & Human Rights / Excerpts/ Address to the United Nations Milleniun Summit, 6 September 2000.

(..) Humanity should be aware of what we have been so far and what we cannot continue to be. Presently, our species has enough accumulated knowledge, ethical values and scientific resources to move towards a new historical era of true justice and humanism. (...)

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