New Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations in New York presents credentials
New York, 16 October 2020. The new Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, presented his credentials in a virtual ceremony due to the conditions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic on the UN Headquarters.
Pedroso Cuesta is a graduate of the Raúl Roa García Higher Institute of International Relations (1987) and holds a Master´s Degree in National Defense.
Human Rights in Cuba: Cuban children are born to be happy
New York, 14 de octubre de 2020. "It is for children that we work, because children are the ones who know how to love, because children are the hope of the world", wrote José Martí, Cuba's National Hero, in 1889, on the cover of the first issue of his magazine La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age), dedicated to the children of Cuba and Latin America.
Cuba denounces the tightening of the US blockade at the dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
New York, 14 October 2020. Cuba participated today in the Interactive Dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, where it expressed its concern about the imposition of punitive approaches, selective practices and double standards against countries of the South, contrary to UNGA resolution 48/141, which emphasizes the need for the promotion and protection of all human rights to be guided by the principles of impartiality, objectivity and non-selectivity, in the spirit of dialogue and cooperation.
Cuba supports development and strengthening of international criminal law
New York, 14 October 2020. The representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Second Secretary Indira Guardia González, participated today in the debate of Item 81 “Crimes against Humanity” of the Sixth Commission of the United Nations.
Human Rights in Cuba: Lending a helping hand to the world is a principle of the Cuban people.
New York, 13 October 2020. Respecting human rights also entails the noble task of reaching out to those in need. That is why Cuba has committed itself to the promotion of international cooperation and solidarity since as early as 1963.