Cuba reiterates its unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian and Arab cause.
The highest priority of the General Assembly must be to achieve an end of violence and the provision of urgent and sufficient humanitarian aid to address the catastrophic situation in Gaza, said Ambassador Gerardo Peñalver Portal, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, during the emergency special session on Palestine.
Cuban Health System, target of US blockade (II).
The large losses to the health sector in Cuba due to the US blockade, between March 2022 and February 2023, amount to 239,803,690 dollars, a figure that exceeds by almost 80 million the damages reported in the period prior to the pandemic. COVID-19.
Cuban Health, a target of US blockade (I).
One of the sectors severly hit by the blockade imposed by United States against Cuba is Health. Between March, 2022 and February, 2023, blockade losses to this sphere totaled USD 239,803,690. During the over 60 years in which the blockade has been imposed, the accumulated losses thus incurred in the health sector have reached USD 3,625,840,594.
Regulatory framework of the Blockade against Cuba remains in full force and effect.
The laws and provisions that make up the regulatory framework of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba remain in full force and effect and are strictly enforced by U.S. state and government agencies, including the Departments of State, Treasury and Commerce.
Cuba demands an immediate ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Cuba reiterated today before the United Nations Security Council its deep concern over the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine and demanded an immediate ceasefire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.