Excellencies,
Distinguished participants,
Speech of Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, to be Deliverad at the Climate Ambition Summit December 12, 2020
Excellencies;
Twenty eight years ago, in a brief and memorable speech, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz set off the alarms on the most serious danger facing the human species. Global acceptance of climate change took years in materializing and it is still partial, incomplete and distant from the urgent and articulated actions that this problem demands.
"For Vietnam, Cuba is ready to give its blood." Fidel's heartfelt phrase was latent yesterday, during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Greater Antilles and that sister nation.
December 3, 2020.
Mr. Secretary General;
Mr. President;
Distinguished Heads of State and Government;
Heads of delegations;
I would like to thank the Republic of Azerbaijan, the current president of the Non-Aligned Movement, for the initiative to convene this Special Session of the General Assembly.
The Seventh Summit of Heads of State and Government of the CARICOM-Cuba mechanism will be held on December 8 this year. This is an important forum whose efforts are focused on the strengthening of relations between the Caribbean Community and Cuba and finding solutions to the most pressing problems affecting the region, such as climate change effects and development challenges.
These Summits are being held every three years since 2002, on alternate venues between our country and CARICOM States.
With the signing of diplomatic relations on December 7, 1960, a close friendship between the two peoples began. In the 1970s, with the visit to Cuba of the then President of Mongolia Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal and the visit to Mongolia of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, these relations were strengthened.
December 3, 2020.
Mr. Secretary General;
Mr. President;
Distinguished Heads of State and Government;
Heads of delegations;
I would like to thank the Republic of Azerbaijan, the current president of the Non-Aligned Movement, for the initiative to convene this Special Session of the General Assembly.
Top leaders of Vietnam sent messages of congratulations to their Cuban counterparts and to the people of the island on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
General secretary of the Communist Party and president of Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, conveyed his congratulations to the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raúl Castro, and to the president of the Caribbean nation, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Mr. Secretary General;
Mr. President;
Distinguished Heads of State and Government;
Heads of delegations;
I would like to thank the Republic of Azerbaijan, the current president of the Non-Aligned Movement, for the initiative to convene this Special Session of the General Assembly.
Her Excellency Mrs. Rebeca Grynspan, Ibero-American Secretary General;
Excellencies, Foreign Ministers and Heads of Delegations of Ibero-America;
May you receive cordial greetings from Havana.
