New York, September 13, 2019. Cuba participated today at the High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace, regarding the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration and Program of Action on a Culture of Peace. At the event, the island remembered that the concept is a set of values, attitudes, traditions, behaviors and lifestyles-based, inter alia, on respect for life; non-violence; promotion of and respect for all human rights, including the right to development; protection of the environment; achievement of gender equality; full respect for the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of States; and non-interference in matters which fall essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of States, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
The Cuban representative to the world organization, Ambassador Humberto Rivero Rosario, stated that Cuba has been subjected for almost six decades to an infamous economic, commercial and financial blockade by the United States of America that seeks to strangle the right of its people to choose its political system. That nation, he added, is responsible for continuous violations of the culture of peace, revealed through: intolerance and discrimination on ethnic, religious or racial grounds, as well as the promotion of hate speech and supremacist ideas under the cover of an irresponsible use of the freedom of speech; unilateral coercive measures; the threat and use of the opposing force; the promotion of covert programs for regime change in developing countries; the development of new, more lethal and more sophisticated armaments; the persistence of large nuclear arsenals; the violation of the principles of International Law; the irresponsible attitude to climate change.
The Cuban diplomat expressed the commitment of Cuba with Peace, in accordance with the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, adopted in 2014, in Havana within the framework of the Second Summit of CELAC, of which full effectiveness and validity still persist.
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations.