New York,  17 October 2016. At the First Committee Thematic Debate on Nuclear Weapons, the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Ambassador Rodolfo Benítez Versón, reiterated that the existence of over 15,000 nuclear weapons, 4,000 of them ready to be deployed, cannot be justified and is unacceptable and urged to eliminate, once and for all, the role of nuclear weapons in military doctrines and security policies.

New York, 17 October 2016. “Although positive progress has been made in the establishment of human rights standards for indigenous peoples, who represent more than 5 percent of the world population, they continue to face serious violations of their rights every day. Violence, marginalization, dispossession of land, expulsion or forced relocation, denial of land rights among others constitute the unfortunate reality of indigenous communities in many areas of the world.”, highlighted at the Third Committee the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Mrs.

Obama’s new measures are positive but of a very limited nature.

New York, 17 October 2016. The United States Government issued a Presidential Policy Directive on Cuba and announced a group of measures to modify the application of some aspects of the Embargo, which will come into force on Monday, 17 October.

The directive is a significant step forward within the process towards the lifting of the Embargo and the improvement of the relations between the United States and Cuba.

The Honourable Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Minister for Youth and Sports of the Republic of Ghana received in his office’s the Ambassador of Cuba to Ghana, Pedro Luis Despaigne González.                                                                                                                       

The Revolutionary National Police General Division, the International Relations and Collaboration Division and the Minors Division of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Cuba, with the sponsorship of UNICEF announce the “3rd. International Conference on Minors Protection” to be held at Palco Hotel, Havana, Cuba, from May 24th to 26th, 2017. It will gather professionals and technicians interested on the topic, aimed at promoting the exchange of experience.

The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Tehran recalled colleagues from diplomatic missions, which also represent the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP), and the Iranian public in general, to celebrate October 12th, the Indigenous Resistance Day. This event was established in 2002, on the initiative of the late Commander Hugo Chavez Frias.

New York, UN. Trinidad and Tobago Chancellor Dennis Moisés spoke on the high-level segment of 71 sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, in which he pronounced for the prompt and definitive lifting of the Blockade against Cuba, which he considered an obstacle to the sustainable development of Cuba.
The words of the trinitario chancellor come to ratify the historical position of the support of the Eastern Caribbean country against the Blockade.