Human Rights Council Approves Resolution Presented by Cuba in Defense of the Right to Food and on Cultural Rights
Geneva, March 30, 2026 – The Human Rights Council, at its 61st session, adopted the resolution presented by Cuba in defense of the right to food. The resolution condemns the use of food as a weapon of political or economic coercion and calls on States to refrain from applying unilateral measures that endanger the food security of other countries.
In presenting the resolution, Cuba denounced the inhumane and illegal blockade imposed by the United States, which severely affects the right to food of the entire Cuban people.
Armed attack against a patrol vessel of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior Note from the Ministry of the Interior
On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States, with registration number FL7726SH, approached up to 1 nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo Falcones, Corralillo municipality, Villa Clara province.
Special Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter in solidarity with Cuba and in rejection of the aggressive escalation by the United States Geneva, 23 February 2026
The Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, on the occasion of its High-Level Meeting held today, February 23, 2026, in Geneva, Switzerland, adopted the following Declaration of solidarity with Cuba and rejection of the escalation of the criminal economic blockade imposed by the United States government against that sister nation.
Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the High-Level Segment of the 61st session of the Human Rights Council
Madam Vice President:
A dictatorship has emerged in the globalized world. The order born from World War II to prevent a third is being destroyed. Its foundations—International Law, the United Nations, and the organizations of the international system—are under attack, and the “philosophy of plunder” is proclaimed as the exceptional and supreme right of the United States of America to conquest and use force as an inherent, natural, and everyday way of being.
The African Union approves a resolution condemning economic aggression against Cuba
Addis Ababa, February 15, 2026 – The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) today adopted, for the 17th consecutive time, a resolution condemning the United States' economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba.
The document, adopted at the 39th Ordinary Session that concluded this Sunday, includes, for the third time, the AU's explicit call to remove the Caribbean nation from the unilateral and unjustified list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism, underscoring the arbitrary nature of this designation.