77 UNGA: Statement by the delegation of Cuba under Agenda Item 74: “criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission”. New York, 6 October 2022
Mr. Chair,
We thank the Secretary-General for the presentation of reports A/77/237 and A/77/225.
My delegation endorses the statement delivered by the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of NAM, and in its national capacity, I wish to submit the following statement:
Cuba considers that the acts carried out by United Nations officials and experts on mission cannot go unpunished, due to the nature of their functions and the special vulnerability of the persons who are victims in such cases.
Roswell Cancer Center praises Cuba´s VSSP cancer drug effectiveness
Washington, 6 October 2022. The Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (EPCCC) in the United States on Thursday reported that Cuba´s VSSP cancer drug effectiveness on metastatic kidney cancer paves the way for a new treatment on such a disease.
According to a collaborative effort among EPCCC researchers and Cuba´s Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM), it was created a new strategy to correct immune dysfunction in patients suffering from malignant tumors, the source said.
Cuba recalls Barbados crime victims
New York, 6 October 2022. Cuba on Thursday recalls the 73 victims of the terrorist attack committed in 1976 on a Cubana de Aviación plane off the coast of Barbados.
The crime of Barbados, as the mid-air explosion of the CU-455 aircraft with bombs placed inside it is known, is considered one of the most brutal acts of terrorism against the Cuban Revolution by people at the service of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Cuban National Electro-Power System recovers its capacities
Havana, 5 October 2022. After some days out, the National Electro-power System (SEN), especially the generator unit number five of the 10 de Octubre Thermoelectric Plant in Nuevitas, eastern Cuba, returned today to national synchronization.
According to the report of Radio Cadena Agramonte’s website, the plant located in the north of Cuba’s largest region, ‘was uploading, which should reach 100 megawatts.
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba: Cuba welcomes the resumption of talks between the Government of Colombia and the ELN
Havana, October 4, 2022.- The Government of Colombia derogated the INTERPOL warrants of arrest as well as the notes of international requests for cooperation and alerts issued against the members of the Peace Delegation of the National Liberation Army (ELN, by its Spanish acronym) and cancelled the requests made to Cuba for the extradition of the members of said delegation who were stayed in our country.