Cuba in UN

Cuba denounces to the Security Council conspirational silence of the United States after terrorist attack to the Cuban Embassy in Washington

New York, 6 August 2020. Today, Cuba endorsed its position at the virtual Open Debate of the Security Council on “Threats to International Peace and Security: Linkage between International Terrorism and Organized Crime”, where it extensively expressed its profound rejection and condemnation of all terrorist acts, methods and practices in all its forms and manifestations, whatever their motivations. It stated that the country has never permitted, nor will it ever permit its territory to be used to plan terrorist acts against any State.

Eusebio Leal Spengler has died: Forever yours, dear Historian

Havana, July 31, 2020. This Friday morning, Eusebio Leal Spengler died, following a long, painful illness.

In accordance with his family’s wishes, Leal’s ashes will be preserved, and once the COVID-19 epidemic is under control, in just recognition of his enduring work, our people will be able to pay their respects at the Capitol in Havana, an emblematic edifice restored under his guidance, for the benefit of the nation.

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Statement to the press by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, on the postponement of the presentation of the Cuban resolution against the blockade

The complex epidemiological situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic at the global level and particularly in the United States, including New York City, will entail changes to the ordinary course of the work of the United Nations General Assembly in its 75th session, which is due to begin in September.

Cuba chairs International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem, held at the United Nations

New York, 28 July 2020. Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d´Affaires a.i. of Cuba to the United Nations, chaired today the International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem: Annexation in Practice – Palestinian Lives in Jerusalem; convened by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and co-organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

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