Press Release: Cuba strengthens its efforts aimed at total disarmament.
New York, 13 June 2017. Cuba participated today in the meeting summoned by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to the United Nations with the presence of Ambassador Elayne White Gómez, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations based in Geneva and Chair of the United Nations Conference to negotiate a legal binding instrument prohibiting nuclear weapons and conducting to its total elimination.
Press Release: Documentary ‘Gema de Cuba’ screened with the presence of filmmakers Estela and Ernesto Bravo.
New York, 13 June 2017. Members of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations gathered this afternoon with the prestigious film director Estela Bravo and her husband Ernesto Bravo for the screening of her documentary “Gema de Cuba”.
Press Release: The Cuban Government embraces its commitment to maintain its achievements as to the protection of children and adolescents, despite the persistence of the blockade against Cuba.
New York, 13 June 2017. During annual sessionof the UNICEF Executive Board, Cuba highlighted last year’s achievements despite the challenges still ahead to accomplish the welfare of those boys and girls, which constitute almost half of the 900 million people who live with less than 1,90 dollars a day.
Press Release: Cuba insists upon the need to achieve a just and definite solution to the question of Western Sahara.
New York, 12 June 2017. At the Session of the Committee on Decolonization devoted to the Question of Western Sahara, the Cuban Ambassador Humberto Rivero Rosario emphasized there has been virtually no progress in finding an effective solution to the conflict in Western Sahara, despite the continued efforts carried out.
Press Release: U.S. levies a new fine for violating blockade against Cuba.
New York, 9 June 2017. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department levied a new fine upon American Honda Finance Corporation (AHFC), which amounts to $87,255 for violating the regulations of the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
OFAC claimed in this case that one of Canada's AHFC subsidiaries approved and financed 13 car lease arrangements between a Honda dealer and the Cuban Embassy in Ottawa between February 2011 and March 2014.