New York, 27 September 2019. In her statement at the 43rd Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 and China, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, stressed the need to maintain unity and cohesion within the Group, as well as to defend its role as the main negotiation and consultation forum among developing countries, at a time when the current imperialist neoliberal fundamentalism has placed humanity in a highly complex and dangerous international scenario.
The Cuban diplomat reflected on the imposition of an unjust international economic order, which has not only deepened socio-economic polarization, but has hindered the solution of alarming problems such as extreme poverty, hunger, food insecurity, illiteracy, deaths from preventable and curable diseases, unemployment, environmental degradation and the intensification of extreme weather events related to climate change. This same prevailing order, she added, intensifies several armed and unarmed conflicts, most of which are promoted by the great powers with the aim of ensuring control of strategic natural resources; while the external debt has quadrupled in the last 20 years, rising from 2,379,341,000,000 USD in 1998 to 10,057,936,000,000 USD in 2018.
At the meeting, held within the framework of the general debate of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Rodriguez Camejo stressed that the imposition of unilateral coercive measures has become a recurrent resource to exert political and economic pressure against the peoples of the South. Precisely, it is the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed to Cuba during six decades by the United States, an irrefutable example of the illegal and ruthless attitude of the Empire.
On behalf of Cuba, she reiterated his commitment to the objectives and principles that motivated the founding of the Group of 77 and stressed his firm decision to unconditionally support the just causes of their peoples.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations