Cuba endorses the role of the United Nations System in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in developing countries.
New York, October 22, 2018.In her statement on Agenda Item 25: Operational Activities for Development, of the Second Committee of the United Nations, Biana Leyva Regueira, Third Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the international organization, reaffirmed that the United Nations Development System and the entities comprising it, must play an essential role in pursuing national development priorities and in the implementation of
The Cuban economy, a victim of the extraterritorial nature of the US blockade against Cuba.
New York, October 19, 2018. The extraterritorial nature of the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba for almost 60 years has been widened by the Helms-Burton Act, affecting all areas of the Cuban economy, and therefore, its people.
Some examples that stand out between April 2017 and March 2018 are:
Cuba advocates a world free of nuclear weapons.
New York, October 19, 2018.Cuba shares the deep concern over the existence of nuclear weapons.
ICT must be instruments for peace and development, considers Cuban representative to the United Nations.
New York, October 19, 2018. The Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, discussed Agenda Item 16 entitled, "Information and communication technologies for development”.