Cuba: the only effective way to avoid the terrible impact of nuclear weapons is their total elimination.
New York, 22 October 2019. For Cuba, achieving nuclear disarmament continues to be the highest priority in the area of disarmament, stressed Lilianne Sánchez Rodríguez, Second Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, who participated in the thematic debate on nuclear weapons of the First Committee of the United Nations.
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
The U.S. blockade against Cuba shows that Washington is the world's main human rights violator.
New York, 21 October 2019. Cuba reaffirms its commitment to continue promoting international cooperation in terms of human rights. We defend the principles of mutual respect, truth, justice, universality, impartiality and non-selectivity as the only way to promote and protect all human rights; stated Ambassador Humberto Rivero Rosario, representative of Cuba to the UN.
U.S. blockade affects the work of the United Nations Development System in Cuba.
New York, 21 October 2019.Cuba participated today in the debate of the Segment on Operational Activities, Agenda Item 23 of the Second Committee of the United Nations, at its 74th session; where it called for the ambitious process of repositioning the United Nations Development System to be translated into a strengthening of the development pillar and the reaffirmation of the principles guiding the System's activities,
Solidarity Network boosts support for Cuba with annual meeting in U.S.
Washington, October 19, 2019. The National Network of Solidarity with Cuba (NNOC) in the United States will plan this Friday and Saturday new actions in support of Cuba during the celebration of its annual conference in this capital.
Participants from states such as New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia and Pennsylvania will gather at the Institute for Policy Studies to analyze the work of the past year and propose new initiatives for the next 12 months.