Cuba in UN

Oct

05

2017

Press Release: US blockade against Cuba is rigorously applied and affects third countries.

New York, October 5, 2017. Despite the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, the policy of blockade against Cuba is maintained and applied with full rigor. In September 2017, US President Donald Trump, just like his predecessors have done, extended for one year the application of economic sanctions to Cuba under the legal framework set in the "Trading with the Enemy Act".

Oct

05

2017

Press Release: Cuba reiterates its unavoidable commitment to promote and strengthen a genuine Rule of Law to change the unjust international order.

New York, 5 October 2017.During the debate on Item 85: Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, of the Sixth Committee at the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly, Mirta Granda Averhoff, Head of the Department of Political Affairs of the General Division for Multilateral Affairs and International Law at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressed the unavoidable commitment of the Government of Cuba to promote and stren

Oct

05

2017

Press Release: Cuba claims the right of Cubans to development, limited by the cruel US blockade imposed on the island.

New York, October 5, 2017. The Cuban representative to the United Nations, First Secretary Juan Miguel González Peña, claimed the right to development of Cubans, limited by the negative effects of the US blockade imposed on the island, whose economic damages amount to 822,280,000,000 dollars.

Oct

04

2017

Press Release: Cuba reiterates that crime prevention remains a major task in a current international context where all countries are vulnerable.

New York, 4 October 2017.Cuban Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mrs.Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, during her statement at the joint debate on items 107: Prevention of Crime and Criminal Justice and 108: International Drug Control, of the Third Committee of the United Nations, highlighted that crime prevention remains a major task in the current international context, taking into account that all countries, regardless of the

Oct

03

2017

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba

Havana, October 3, 2017. On September 29, 2017, the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the decision to significantly downscale the diplomatic staff of the US embassy in Havana and withdraw all their relatives, claiming that there had been “attacks” perpetrated against US Government officials in Cuba which have harmed their health.

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