Cuba denounces

At United Nations, Cuban Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodriguez Abascal, Deputy Permanent Representative,  rejected the application of unilateral coercive economic measures, inconsistent with international law and the Charter of the United Nations that impede the full realization of the right to development, as well as compliance with the 2030 Agenda.

Members of Cuban civil society, intellectuals, journalists, and students gathered in Havana, in a public hearing convened by the Association of Cuban Jurists and the Cuban United Nations Association to discuss the activation of the Helms-Burton Act’s Title III, a law that violates the principle of sovereignty, and seeks to destroy our nation and subordinate it to the power of a foreign government.

Cuba said at the United Nations in Geneva that the blockade imposed by the US the main obstacle to the right to development. 'This genocidal policy, which has been applied against our country for nearly 60 years, is also a flagrant violation of the Cuban people's human rights,' Cuban Ambassador Pedro Luis Pedroso said at the 20th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development.

Cuba's Alternate Permanent Representative to the UN denounced at the General Assembly the strengthening of the US blockade and its new unilateral sanctions. "The blockade is not only maintained, but is reinforced by Washington's recent decision to allow lawsuits be filed in US courts against individuals and companies outside the jurisdiction of the United States".

The People''s Power National Assembly condemned the hostile policy by the Government of the United States against the Caribbean island and the Helms-Burton Act, a genocidal extraterritorial project against the Cuban people.