Jakarta, October 19, 2018. The ambassador of Cuba, Nirsia Castro Guevara, received today Johni Asadoma, president of the Indonesian Boxing Association, to discuss the reopening of a cooperation project in boxing.
Helsinki, October 18, 2018. As part of the several activities that take place during these days in Finland, on the occasion of the Cuban Cultural Days, the Ambassador of Cuba Eduardo Lazo Pérez gave a conference on Tuesday, October 16, at the Central Library of the city of Tampere, which brought together more than one hundred people, including former parliamentarians, members of the Finland-Cuba Friendship Association, Cuban residents and residents of that important city.
Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. government called a press conference to slander Cuba in the UN’s Economic and Social Council hall. As the meeting concluded, a teleSUR correspondent stated, “This is the environment. The meeting is over. The hall almost empty. Very few of those invited by the U.S.”
Why is the United States taking this step?
The United States intends to defend, by any means, its unilateral policy of economic blockade, which is the object of universal condemnation, and violates international law.
Today, Tuesday, 16 October 2018, the United States of America has once again sullied the name of the United Nations.
The United States, in another action of contempt for human rights and this Organization, has preferred to create absurd lies about Cuba rather than recognize and promote a campaign to redress its multiple human rights violations, both in its territory and in the rest of the world.
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba rejects in the strongest way the defamatory campaign against Cuba on human rights, launched on October 16, by the United States government at the headquarters of the United Nations.
As already warned, this action is part of the sequence of declarations against our country made in recent weeks by high-level officials of the United States government, which show growing hostility towards Cuba and the Cuban Revolution.
Jakarta, October 16, 2018. Today´s evening was inaugurated the Cuban Cinema Exhibition Jakarta 2018 "Cuban Revolution: 60 years of action without cut!" Organized by [ESAS] Empu Sendok Arts Station and the Embassy of Cuba, this presentation is among the activities that are being developed by the Cuban Mission to celebrate the National Culture Day on October 20 and the 60th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution next January.
United Nations, Oct 15 (Prensa Latina) The United States blockade against Cuba constitutes a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of that country, it was highlighted today in the UN Second Committee.
United Nations, Oct 15 (Prensa Latina) Cuba''s permanent representative to the UN, Anayansi Rodriguez, denounced on Monday the increasing politicization in the debate on human rights, particularly against countries of the South.
The Director General in charge of the United States Carlos Fernández de Cossío alerted that in recent months the US government has escalated its hostile rhetoric against Cuba. “It makes use of reiterated statements from high level officials aimed at manufacturing pretexts that steer toward a climate of greater bilateral tension”, said the official.
The U.S. Department of State issued a press release on 12 October, informing of the Government's intention to use the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber of the United Nations to hold an event aimed at launching a Campaign called "Jailed for What?" against Cuba on Tuesday, 16 October 2018.
This action at the ECOSOC Chamber, a Major Organ of the Organization, seeks to tarnish the name of the United Nations in an act against a Member State, in contravention of the purposes and principles of the Charter.
