Cuban FM Slams US Over Economic Blockade and Venezuela
Telesur - "I want to denounce, before this General Assembly of the United Nations, that just a few months ago the U.S. government has started to implement, criminal, non-conventional measures to prevent fuel shipments from arriving to our country from different markets, by resorting to threats and persecution against the companies that transport fuel, flag States, States of registration as well as shipping and insurance companies."
Threats and coercion will not extract a single concession from Cuba
Speech by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, during the general debate of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 28, 2019
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Mr. President;
Heads of state and government;
Distinguished delegates;
I would like to convey my sincere condolences to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas for the loss of life and the terrible destruction caused by Hurricane Dorian. I call upon the international community to mobilize resources in order to provide assistance to that country.
Leaders at UN demand end to the US blockade on Cuba
United Nations, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) The demand for an end to the US blockade against Cuba was voiced by representatives from all over the world, during speeches at the general debate of the 74th session of the General Assembly, which continues this Friday.
Suriname's President Ashwin Adhin said on Thursday that his country strongly disapproves of 'the economic, financial and commercial blockade of more than 50 years against the Republic of Cuba and its people.'
Commemoration in Thailand on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
BANGKOK, September 25, 2019.- The Cuban ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, Héctor Conde Almeida, gave a lecture at the “Chulalongkorn University” in commemoration of September 26th as International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, designated by the United Nations Organization (UN) in 2013. The presentation was attended by students of the Spanish Section of the Faculty of Arts and the Center of Latin American Studies of the University, authorities and professors of the prestigious institution.
Cuban foreign minister: slander and little substance in Trump's words
United Nations, (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said today there was a lot of slander and little substance in the speech of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, before the UN General Assembly.
They were statements full of threats to the countries of the south, particularly to our America, and what I hear among the delegations at the UN is that it was full of falsehoods and generated rejection and mocks, Rodríguez told Telesur and Prensa Latina.