Cuba calls for ensuring international peace and security through respect for multilateralism and the UN Charter
New York, 10 January 2020. A truly strong and participatory United Nations is necessary, with a transparent and duly democratized Security Council and a revitalized General Assembly, which will accompany States in the sovereign construction of the future that each nation will decide for itself without interference of any kind, stated today Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, Deputy Permanent Representative a
Cuba is an active promoter of regional integration
Mexico City, January 9, 2020. With a tweet from Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit in Mexico City, Cuba offered its best wishes for a period of hope and unity in diversity.
The Cuban delegation to the event, led by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, called on the regional group to revitalize collaboration among member countries and consolidate integration.
Legacy: In a nuclear war, the collateral damage would be human life by Fidel Castro
Message from Comandante en jefe Fidel Castro Ruz against nuclear war, from October 15, 2010
The use of nuclear weapons in a new war would mean the end of humanity. This was foreseen by scientist Albert Einstein, who was able to measure their destructive capacity to produce heat of millions of degrees that would vaporize everything within a wide radius of impact. The brilliant researcher was the driving force behind the development of this weapon, before it was available to the genocidal Nazi regime.
Cuban History: Fidel arrives to Havana in 1959
Havana, January 9, 2020. When Fidel and his bearded troops, steeled in battle against the dictatorship, reached the Columbia base, January 8, 1959, an exacting stage in the national liberation struggle came to an end and a hopeful, unprecedented chapter in the country's history began.
The Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of Cuba to the United Nations signed the book of condolences for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq
New York, 8 January 2020. Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, Deputy Permanent Representative, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, signed today the book of condolences at the Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN, for the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The senior Iranian official was killed last 2 January, in a U.S. bombing of the International Airport of Baghdad, Iraq.