New York, 13 October 2016. “The least developed countries, where only 6.7% of households have internet access, are lagging far behind the developed countries, with 81.3% of households connected.
New York, 13 October 2016. At the General Debate on Agenda item “International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space”, Ambassador Humberto Rivero Rosario at the Fourth Committee, reaffirmed today Cuba’s position regarding the militarization of the outer space as one of the major threats to the future of human species and he called upon the international community to prevent outer space from becoming the next target of the arms race.
New York, 12 October 2016. Prohibition on ships reaching Cuban ports, to have access to ports in the United States, for a 6-month period, has a negative impact on the transport of goods to Cuba by sea. The renowned maritime consulting company Drewry Ltd. acknowledged that the main shipping companies which transport O/D containers (Origin/Destination) to Cuba, do so via trans-shipments using third harbors in the Caribbean.
New York, 11 October 2016. The Cuban delegate to the Sixth Committee Tanieris Diéguez Lao offered today great importance to the item: “The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction”, at the time she reiterated Cuba’s concern for the inappropriate use of this principle in the unilateral, selective and politically motivated exercise of jurisdiction by tribunals in developing countries’, against natural or legal persons, from developing countries, without coming from an international norm or treaty.
New York, 11 October 2016. “The implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and in like manner, the Samoa Pathway as indispensable social development frameworks of Small Island States reinforce the importance of counting on an effective global alliance for development”, expressed the delegate of Cuba to the Second Committee, Yilianne Sánchez Rodríguez, after pointing out the need to change the unsustainable production and consumption patterns of current societies and advance in setting sustainable development models, that root out inequality, discrimination, poverty and social exclusion.