Remarks by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla on the occasion of the launching of the Medicc Magazine. New York, September 24, 2019.
Good evening ladies and gentleman.
I wish to thank the Editors of MEDICC for inviting us to the launch of this special issue and I want to congratulate them for an outstanding work.
With all the current scientific progress and the immense accumulated wealth, half of the world´s 7.3 billion inhabitants remain without basic health services. Of the 60 million deaths in 2016, 54 per cent were caused by the ten main curable diseases.
Statement by Mr. Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. 74 UNGA. New York, 23 September 2019.
Mr. President,
First and foremost, I would like to thank you and the Director-General of WHO for holding this meeting, the relevance of which is shown by the fact that almost half of the world's population does not have access to basic health care services.
The Helms-Burton Act aims to suffocate the Cuban economy.
New York, 23 September 2019. The main example of the implementation and tightening of the U.S. blockade against Cuba has been the decision of the U.S. Department of State, dated 17 April 2019, to permit the lawsuits conceived by Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which came into force in 1996, also known as the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act. All this despite the opposition from members of Congress -including Republican members-, the business sector, different organizations, and U.S.
Declaration of the19th ALBA-TCP Political Council. New York, September, 23, 2019.
The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas - Peoples’ Treaty of Commerce (ALBA-TCP), assembled at its 19th Political Council, in the context of the 74th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (UN), hereby convey the following agreements:
They deplored the expulsion of two diplomats from the sisterly Republic of Cuba to the UN by the authorities of the State Department of the United States of America (USA) on September 19, 2019.
The Cuban ambassador held a meeting with a group of militants from the Sinn Fein party, who will travel to Cuba.
Dublin, September 18, 2019. Cuban Ambassador Hugo Rene Ramos Milanés held a working meeting with a group of Sinn Féin party militants, who will travel to Cuba in coordination with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.