Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Cuban minister of Science, Technology and Environment, led a delegation to the annual session of the international meeting Petersberg Climate Dialogue which aims at setting up the scenary to the United Nations conferences on Climate Change.
I would like to reiterate my gratitude for the support and confidence placed in Cuba to conduct the works of the Group of 77 and China during the year 2023. It will be a year of formidable challenges and complex processes that will demand a determined action from the countries of the South.
Madame Chair,
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the grave problems and colossal challenges human kind was already faced with and exposed new threats, including the frailty of health care systems. The promotion, protection and respect of the right to health are particularly relevant in the current context.
Mister President,
This year we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the historic World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, but the goals established in the Durban Plan and Programme of Action are yet to be achieved. We are no way near the materialization of the 2030 Agenda either.
Mrs. President:
We are so happy and take comfort in the fact that the United Nations General Assembly is convening a peace summit, and that such summit has been named after Nelson Mandela.
Less than 30 years ago, beloved Madiba was a political prisoner in the apartheid jails, serving a life sentence as a result of his noble struggle for justice and equality among all men and women in South Africa, where a white minority was subjecting the black majority to the scorn of segregation.
Full text of the speech offered by Cuban PresidentMiguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, during the General Debate of the 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly.
Addressing the UN as part of the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in New York this Monday, September 24, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez began by noting Cuba’s pride on having supported the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and recalled the iconic embrace between the Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro and the anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela, who visited Cuba in 1991, shortly after his release from prison.
Excellencies,
Distinguished Delegates, Excellency Ambassador Lotfi Bouchaara, I congratulate you on your election as head of the twenty-seventh session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice; congratulations that I make extensive to the other members of the Bureau.
The delegation of Cuba associates itself fully with the statements made by the distinguished representatives of Ecuador and Bolivia, on behalf of the Group of 77 plus China, and the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, respectively.
Mr. president,
Statement by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the event in United Nations in solidarity with the countries affected by hurricane Irma. New York, September 18, 2017.
Mr. President,
I want to express my satisfaction at the holding of this meeting that allow us to state our views on issues that shall be debated in the 2020 Review Conference of the Treatment on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
