Press Release: "The Embargo violates international law/ extraterritorial application¨.
New York, 12 October 2016. Prohibition on ships reaching Cuban ports, to have access to ports in the United States, for a 6-month period, has a negative impact on the transport of goods to Cuba by sea. The renowned maritime consulting company Drewry Ltd. acknowledged that the main shipping companies which transport O/D containers (Origin/Destination) to Cuba, do so via trans-shipments using third harbors in the Caribbean.
Press Release/ 71 UNGA: “Cuba calls for strict respect of the UN Charter in the application of the universal jurisdiction principle.”
New York, 11 October 2016. The Cuban delegate to the Sixth Committee Tanieris Diéguez Lao offered today great importance to the item: “The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction”, at the time she reiterated Cuba’s concern for the inappropriate use of this principle in the unilateral, selective and politically motivated exercise of jurisdiction by tribunals in developing countries’, against natural or legal persons, from developing countries, without coming from an international norm or treaty.
Press Release/71 UNGA: “Cuba in its efforts for sustainable development and disaster risk reduction”.
New York, 11 October 2016. “The implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and in like manner, the Samoa Pathway as indispensable social development frameworks of Small Island States reinforce the importance of counting on an effective global alliance for development”, expressed the delegate of Cuba to the Second Committee, Yilianne Sánchez Rodríguez, after pointing out the need to change the unsustainable production and consumption patterns of current societies and advance in setting sustainable development models, that root out inequality, discrimination, poverty and social exclusion.
Press Release/ 71 UNGA: "Cuba stands out the significance of the works of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations."
New York, 11 October 2016. The Cuban delegate to the Sixth Committee, Tanieris Diéguez Lao, on Agenda item "Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization", underscored the importance for respect and promotion of the norms of the UN Charter, as well as, the preservation and strengthening of the leading role of the General Assembly, in its capacity of primary policy-making body, deliberation and representation of the United Nations.
Press Release/ 71 UNGA: “Cuba reiterates its unwavering commitment with International Humanitarian Law”.
New York, 10 October 2016. Cuba stressed today that the constant imperialist aggressions and the permanent interferences in the internal affairs of third world countries; the plundering of their wealth and the promotion of regional conflicts for economic and political benefits; the systematic destruction of these peoples’ infrastructures and indiscriminate slaughtering of innocent civilians are the main causes nowadays for the violation of International Humanitarian Law.