There is a historically postponed world waiting for our agreement and action
Speech by Miguel M. Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the 18th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Dear President Ilham Aliyev,
Distinguished heads of state and government,
Delegates and guests:
With sincere emotion, I am grateful for the warm welcome given us by the people and government of the Republic of Azerbaijan, with whom we are joined by 27 years of uninterrupted relations. It has been a long but essential journey.
The extraterritorial nature of the U.S. blockade against Cuba has been proved.
New York, 25 October 2019. There are many examples of the extraterritorial implementation of the U.S. blockade against Cuba, intensified by the decision of the U.S. government, under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, to permit the possibility of taking legal action in U.S. courts against entities that "traffic" in properties nationalized in Cuba in the 1960s. This provision attacks freedom of trade and reinforces the extraterritorial nature of the sanctions against Cuba, besides harming the island's economic and trade relations with the international community.
Cuba, one of NAM founding and active members
Baku, October 23, 2019. Cuba has registered an active performance in the work and history of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), whose 18th Summit of Heads of State and Government will take place in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan.
The NAM summit will be held on October 25 and 26, to which Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel will participate.
Cuba denounces the Israeli occupation is the main obstacle to the development of the Palestinian people.
New York, 22 October 2018.At the debate on item 62 Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources, of the Second Committee of the United Nations, Biana Leyva Regueira, Third Secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, highlighted how Israel deprives