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24

2018

President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez speaks for the first time at the United Nations during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit.

New York, September 24, 2018. The President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, addressed for the first time the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, held on the day before the high-level general debate of the 73rd Session of the UNGA.

Sep

24

2018

Díaz-Canel addresses the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit

Addressing the UN as part of the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in New York this Monday, September 24, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez began by noting Cuba’s pride on having supported the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and recalled the iconic embrace between the Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro and the anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, who visited Cuba in 1991, shortly after his release from prison.

Sep

24

2018

Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade participates in the high-level event "New perspectives on international cooperation for development", organized by ECLAC.

New York, September 24, 2018. Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment of Cuba, participated in the high-level event "New perspectives on international cooperation for development" organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations, ECLAC, co-sponsored by the European Union and the Development Center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Sep

24

2018

Cuban delegation from Institute of Radio and Television travel to Turkey.

Turkey, Ankara, September 24, 2018. A delegation from the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) led by its vice-president, Guillermo Manuel Pavón Pacheco, arrived in the Turkish capital to participate in a training program sponsored by the Turkish Corporation of Radio and Television (TRT). The delegation was received by a representative of the Cuban Embassy and held a lively meeting with his group, led by Cuba Ambassador Luis Alberto Amorós Núñez.

Sep

24

2018

Statement by the President of Cuba Miguel M. Diaz-Canel Bermudez in the “Nelson Mandela Peace Summit” at the UN General Assembly. New York, 24 September 2018.

Mrs. President:

We are so happy and take comfort in the fact that the United Nations General Assembly is convening a peace summit, and that such summit has been named after Nelson Mandela.

Less than 30 years ago, beloved Madiba was a political prisoner in the apartheid jails, serving a life sentence as a result of his noble struggle for justice and equality among all men and women in South Africa, where a white minority was subjecting the black majority to the scorn of segregation.

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