Another expression of the blockade: hounding of fuel supplies to Cuba
New York, 26 January 2021. The difficulties in the fuel supply to Cuba, owing to the persecution unleashed by the US government that resulted in penalties against companies, tankers and shipping companies that carry fuel to the island, caused interruptions in the production cycles of several companies in the food and agricultural sector, as well as in the crops.
United Nations acknowledges Cuba for its contribution to the 2021 budget of the organization
New York, 26 January 2021. Cuba was included in the United Nations Honour Roll, having paid its regular budget assessment to the organization in full, corresponding to 2021. The Island was the 19th Member State to contribute to UN finances.
It is a contrast that a small, developing island, commercially, economically and financially blockaded by the world's largest power, fulfills its duties to the United Nations, while powerful nations cut their budgets earmarked for the organization or keep it under financial blackmail.
Cuba reaffirms at UN Security Council its unwavering solidarity with the Syrian people
New York, 26 January 2021.In the first open debate this year in the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, supported the demand of the Syrian government to recover the Golan Heights, seized by Israel in 1967, and
Cuba hopes that the Security Council reform process continues to be a space for inclusive and transparent debate
New York, 25 January 2021. “The Security Council reform process must have a comprehensive and broad approach and must continue to be a space for inclusive, participatory and transparent debate which moves forward on the basis of consensus”, stated Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, during his statement on intergovernmental negotiations on the question of equitable