New York, 12 September 2019. In her statement at the presentation of the Annual Report of the United Nations Security Council, Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of Cuba to the international organization, expressed her concern about the unjustified expansion of the Security Council’s agenda in recent years.
The organ, she explained, continues to consider issues that do not necessarily pose an immediate threat to international peace and security, while continuing to usurp the role conferred upon other organs, particularly the General Assembly. She thus rejected the selective manipulation of the Council's methods and practices in terms of political and domination agendas, as well as the politicization in the assessment of other issues under the consideration of the organ.
The representative of the island recalled that that organ, in carrying out the functions imposed by its primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security, conferred on it by the Charter of the United Nations, acts on behalf of all Member States. She added that the aspiration is to have a Security Council that responds to the concerns of all Member States of the Organization, even before making its decisions and to have real access to its work and that of its subsidiary organs.
She demanded that the Council's report be exhaustive, explanatory and analytical, enabling to assess the causes and implications of the actions undertaken by that organ and not merely a description of its meetings and agenda.
Rodríguez Abascal also pointed out that it is inadmissible that the Report of the Security Council of 2018 ignores the violations of its own resolutions, in particular of resolution 2231 (2015) on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and resolution 478 (1980) on the status of East Jerusalem, which led to the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA and the transfer of its Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; besides, it should not ignore the stagnation of the Palestinian question and the prolongation of the suffering of its people; nor any condemnation of the escalation of violence and the tragic events that have taken place in the Gaza Strip since 30 March 2018 due to U.S. obstruction.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations