Cuba at the UN presents Country Programme 2026-2030 to UNICEF and reaffirms commitment to childhood protection.
New York, February 11, 2026 – Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, presented Cuba’s 2026–2030 Country Programme with UNICEF at the first regular session of the UNICEF Executive Board, highlighting its strategic role as a cooperation framework to strengthen the well-being of children and adolescents.
Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People arrives in Cuba
Havana, February 11, 2026. - The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People arrived in Cuba this Wednesday on a working visit. The Delegation is led by Senegal’s Permanent Representative to the UN, His Excellency Ambassador Coly Seck, who is also the Chair of the Committee.
Cuba at the UN calls for revitalization of the General Assembly without undermining the sovereign prerogatives based on the UN Charter and multilateralism.
New York, February 10, 2026 – Cuba’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Yuri Gala López reiterated the need to bolster the General Assembly's role as the UN's chief deliberative, policy-making, and representative body during the Working Group's thematic debate on its strengthening and revitalization, part of the 80th session.
Cuba reaffirms at the UN its priority to comprehensive protection of children and calls for more active funding of UNICEF.
New York, February 10, 2026 – Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán addressed the Executive Board's First Regular Session on Tuesday, reaffirming Havana's strong commitment to protecting children and adolescents amid escalating global conflicts, a climate crisis, inequality, hunger, and preventable diseases.
SPECIAL COMMUNIQUÉ OF THE GROUP OF 77 AND CHINA ON THE NEW MEASURES AIMED AT TIGHTENING THE EMBARGO ON CUBA
Regarding the announcement by the Government of the United States of new measures further tightening the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed against the Republic of Cuba, including actions aimed at obstructing the supply of oil to the country and the imposition of sanctions on third States that engage in legitimate commercial relations with Cuba, which have clear extraterritorial effects, the Group stresses that these measures are contrary to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, and undermine multilateralism, international ec