Mr. President,
The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action have taken on renewed relevance today, in the face of growing threats to international law and the Charter of the United Nations.
The call made in the Declaration for all States to refrain from adopting unilateral coercive measures and from using food as a weapon of war must be respected.
The economic, commercial and financial blockade and the brutal energy encirclement imposed by the United States against the Cuban people flagrantly violate the principles set forth in this document.
The architects of this policy of genocide and collective punishment celebrate as successes the agony of a Cuban mother who loses a child due to a lack of medicines. They rejoice when our elderly do not have access to an ambulance in an emergency. They take pleasure in prolonged power outages, high food prices, and difficulties in accessing water supplies and other basic services.
To justify the extreme tightening of the blockade, the Government of the United States resorts to the absurd pretext of designating our small island as a threat to the national security of the nuclear superpower.
Cuba is under threat of military aggression. There can be no justification whatsoever for attacking our country, nor for imposing inhumane coercive measures that have a devastating humanitarian impact.
Remaining silent in the face of what is being done to Cuba today weak