Jul
20
2026
Madam President:
Cuba has a zero-tolerance policy on human trafficking based on the pillars of prevention, confrontation, and victim protection. We fully comply with our obligations under the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime and its Trafficking in Persons Protocol, to which we are a State party.
Mr. President:
We welcome this meeting promoted by Guyana under the leadership of its President.
Above all, Cuba condemns, in the strongest terms, the genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, as well as the recent unjustified attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
These crimes are supported and enabled by the United States government.
Ms. President,
We welcome the presence in the Room of the Foreign Minister of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Comrade Yván Gil.
My delegation associates itself with the statement delivered by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as those to be delivered by Uganda on behalf of NAM, and Colombia, on behalf of CELAC.
Mr. President,
My delegation endorses the statement made by Venezuela on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the statements to be made by Uganda and Iraq on behalf of the NAM and the Group of 77 and China, respectively.
The U.S. economic blockade against Cuba goes beyond the term of unilateral extraterritorial coercive measures and the concept of a trade embargo.
Mr. President:
We support the legitimate right of the Haitian people to find a peaceful and sustainable solution to the serious, multidimensional crisis they are facing.
We believe that a real solution to the enormous challenges resulting from centuries of colonial and neocolonial plundering and foreign intervention requires the following:
Ms. President:
Numerous resolutions from the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the African Union have ratified the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people to date.
Over 60 years have passed since the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization designated Western Sahara as a Non-Self-Governing Territory.
It is imperative that the international community commit to implementing the UN resolutions and decisions on Western Sahara.
Distinguished co-facilitators,
Excellencies and colleagues,
I would like to thank the co-facilitators for outlining a clear and inclusive roadmap for the WSIS+20 review process and for convening this first preparatory meeting.
Dear Co-Chairs, Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for convening this meeting. We appreciate this opportunity to discuss the eight working groups of the conference.
Achieving peace in the Middle East requires a just solution to the Palestinian question. The Israeli government is trying to prevent this by all means, including destroying the State of Palestine to annul the creation of two states.
Mr. President:
While the Security Council is debating the protection of civilians in armed conflict, genocide against the Palestinian civilian population continues. Israel enjoys permanent political, military and financial backing from the United States. Washington's complicity has guaranteed the Occupying Power total impunity.
