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.
BANGKOK, September 6, 2017.- The Cuban Ambassador to Thailand, Héctor Conde Almeida, was welcomed by the Minister of Education of the Kingdom of Thailand, S.E. Teerakiat Jaroensettasin, who had words of admiration for Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
In the cordial meeting the good path of bilateral relations was confirmed and the mutual will to continue strengthening them was reiterated, with special reference to the historical significance of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries to be celebrated in May 2018.
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.
