Year 2017

Jun

19

2017

71 UNGA: Cuba at the Decolonization Committee, on Agenda item: The Question of Puerto Rico.

Mr. President,

This session of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples is undoubtedly a historic day.

We are deeply honored by the presence of Oscar López Rivera, as Petitioner, a fighter against colonialism for the self-determination and independence of his people, who was in United States prisons for more than 35 years for fighting for the freedom of his homeland.

Jun

19

2017

71 UNGA: Cuba to the Special Committee on Decolonization, adoption of draft resolution on the question of Puerto Rico, contained in document A/AC.109/2017/L.12.

Topic: Acknowledgments following the adoption of draft resolution on the question of Puerto Rico

Mr. Chairman,

Jun

12

2017

71 UNGA: Cuba at the Session of the Committee on Decolonization on the Question of Western Sahara.

Mr. Chairman,

Fifty-four years ago, the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United Nations declared Western Sahara as a non-self-governing territory. In the past 21 years several resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the African Union have ratified the right to independence and self-determination of the Saharawi people pursuant to United Nations resolution 1514 (XV) on the granting of the Independence to colonial countries and peoples.