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Reyes Rodriguez

lines on the record: 124
first: 2013-01-15
most recent: 2016-08-23
sittings or episodes: 16
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“In facing contemporary challenges to global security, regional and subregional organizations and their member States must always uphold decision-making on the basis of consensus and through framework of multilateralism. Those elements will always form the foundation of an effective international order - one that rejects unilateral steps that are extraterritorial in nature and contrary to international law, and may endanger multilateralism. The role of regional organizations and associations in no way reduces the responsibility of the United Nations for the maintenance of international peace and security. However, for the United Nations to become a standard for transparency, democracy and participation of the entire international community in resolving serious global problems, it is urgent to reform the Organization.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505Resumption1 (2015) · source
“That proclamation confirms our region's commitment to the principles of international law and enhances the culture of peace, with the aim of removing forever the threat or use of force, promoting the peaceful resolution of disputes and promoting the commitment of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean to encourage friendly relations and cooperation among themselves and other nations, regardless of their differences. We believe that CELAC is a tangible example of how regional integration can lead to ongoing dialogue and be based on the principle of complementarity, in order to work towards achieving the inclusive development of its member States on the basis of solidarity.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505Resumption1 (2015) · source
“It is a mechanism for dialogue and consultation that is becoming a political forum and actor in promoting the process of political, economic, social and cultural integration, thereby achieving the necessary balance between the unity and diversity of our peoples. In its short history, CELAC has already reached a major milestone, which is the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace - in the context of the second Summit, held in Havana.”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505Resumption1 (2015) · source
“Mr. Reyes Rodriguez (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): Cuba commends the Nigerian presidency of the Security Council on guiding our work, and especially, Madam President, your presence here throughout the day. We support the statement made by the representative of Iran on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. Cuba welcomes and supports the holding of this open debate of the Security Council on an issue as important as the one before us. Maintaining international peace and security is the primary responsibility of the Security Council, and one ofthe purposes of the United Nations. Therefore, all States Members have the duty to promote it. Cuba has the honour - alongside 32 other States of the Latin America and Caribbean region - ofbelonging to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).”
2015-08-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7505Resumption1 (2015) · source
“Cuba will continue to contribute with its modest resources and all its energy to the well-being of peoples, especially those most in need. It will remain committed to supporting international cooperation for the achievement of sustainable development with inclusion and in defence of international peace and security.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“A revitalized General Assembly is also needed to take the central role in the realization of the right of peoples and of every human being to a just, democratic and equitable international order that supports the efforts of States in the construction of a sovereign future that each nation decides for itself. Cuba wishes to reaffirm the unwavering commitment of the Cuban people to the Charter of the United Nations, in particular its purposes and principles, and reiterate its vocation for peace in this forum. The historical leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, said that the struggle of peoples for their sovereignty and independence is the fight for peace. Cuba has fought for peace, fighting the exploitation of man by man. Cuba has fought for peace to defend its sovereignty.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“The rule of law in international relations is incompatible with unilateralism and economic, commercial and financial policies and measures contrary to international law. The rule of law at the international level is also violated when actions are carried out to impose regime change, intervene in the internal affairs of States or incite internal conflicts in sovereign States under foreign agendas aimed at hegemonic domination and influence. Seventy years after its foundation, the United Nations must be strengthened and the Security Council democratized, to make them standards of transparency, democracy and participation by the entire international community in the resolution ofpressing global problems.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“They must take advantage of any opportunity that might save lives. They should not be standard-bearers for the philosophy of regime change, which is a clear attack against peoples' self- determination. As clearly confirmed by the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of States, the non-use or threat of the use of force, self- determination and non-interference in the internal affairs of States constitute the basic foundation of international law and a prerequisite for the peaceful coexistence of nations, sustainable development and the promotion and protection of all human rights for all.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“While it is true that sustainable development cannot be achieved without peace and stability, it is truer still that there will be no peace or stability without development and there will be no peace or security if millions of people are condemned to hunger, poverty and hopelessness. The Security Council has an important role to fulfil in relation to the primary responsibility of maintaining international peace and security and promoting respect for the purposes and principles of the Charter. It must perform its functions in accordance with the powers that were conferred upon it by the Charter of the United Nations. The members of the Security Council should be the first to give priority to peaceful solutions and exercise a clear, effective and resolute resistance against the recourse to war.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“Flagrant violations of the Charter of the United Nations, including interference in the internal affairs of other States for the purpose of hegemonic domination, acts of aggression, wars over natural resources, neocolonialist practices in foreign policy, the unfair and exclusionary current international order, the inequality and selfishness resulting from neoliberal capitalist globalization, discrimination and xenophobia, and the denial of peoples' right to self- determination constitute serious violations of the right to peace. The purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and international law are violated when States resort to the use and threat of the use of force and to serious actions taken against the sovereignty of other nations, including by implementing unilateral coercive measures.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“Mr. Reyes Rodriguez (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): Cuba considers this to be a very timely debate on this subject as we approach the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the adoption of its Charter. The year 2015 also marks the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War and of the nuclear bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were horrific chapters in the history of humankind that should not be repeated. Realizing the right to peace requires eradicating the threats that conspire against that common desire. The consecration of altruistic purposes and principles in the Charter is not enough. It is essential that Member States and other international actors strictly adhere to such principles in their conduct.”
2015-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7389 (2015) · source
“Cuba will continue to contribute, with its modest resources, to the well-being of the people, especially through supporting the neediest. Cuba remains committed to supporting international cooperation so as to achieve sustainable development with inclusion and socialjustice. We will also forever be committed to the defence of peace and international security.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“The Latin America and Caribbean region is at the vanguard of the promotion of peace and the peaceful resolution of disputes, having formally declared itself a zone of peace at the second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States last year. That demonstrates the spirit of integration of our region, which continues to seek to banish forever the threat or use of force as a means of resolving conflicts; social inequality; poverty; illiteracy; and lack of free and universal access to basic services such as health and education. It is a region in which priority is given to solidarity and cooperation among our peoples for prosperity and in which human rights for all are promoted and protected, including the right to development and to full freedom and dignity for its citizens.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“Peace, security and the exercise of the self- determination of our peoples promote the conditions that allow for the achievement of sustainable development, with inclusion, equity and social justice. The greatest contribution that the Security Council can make to the strengthening of inclusive development is that of exercising its obligation to serve as an impregnable bulwark against foreign occupation, aggression and wars of conquest, acting instead as a true beacon in support of the sovereignty of States, large and small, thereby ensuring full respect for international law and the enjoyment of the right to peace or all.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“The Charter of the United Nations established the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly as the principal organs with mandates in the area of economic and social development. The work of these bodies should be strengthened. This year the work ofthe Assembly will be particularly important in the context of the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda. This agenda should be established on the basis of solid precepts, with full respect for the principles enshrined in the Charter, ensuring sustained economic growth and sustainable development, with no exceptions. The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities should form the cornerstone of our efforts to achieve sustainable, equitable and inclusive development.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“In 2014, global expenditure on armaments was 340 times higher than the biennial budget of the United Nations and its specialized agencies. With the resources allocated to armaments, we could have achieved many of the modest goals set by the Millennium Development Goals, which, unfortunately, will not be achieved. For the cost of a nuclear weapon, medical attention could be provided to tens of thousands of people. Cuba supports the total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, which threaten to exterminate humanity. Current stockpiles of resources, which lead only to hardship and death, could be better allocated to the full realization of the right to development.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“Promoting and maintaining international peace and security will entail addressing the causes of poverty and inequality. We cannot eliminate the conflicts in the world if we do not eradicate the root causes that motivate and fuel them. Human history corroborates the theory that the eradication of hunger, disease and poverty require forms of cooperation that show solidarity and fairness and do not involve a resort to arms. The arms race eats up many of the resources that could be allocated to economic growth and social well-being. World military expenditure totalled $1.756 trillion in 2012, that is, 2.5 per cent of the global gross domestic product. It is essential that concrete international measures be taken to redirect the resources allocated to the military towards activities that bring about development.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“The establishment of a new international order that is truly just, democratic and equitable remains a chimera. The Council must be democratized through a radical reform, but that has yet to occur. We need a United Nations that is more democratic and effective, with bodies that implement their respective mandates, having at its centre a revitalized and strengthened General Assembly that fully exercises the powers that fall to it under the Charter. The world has the resources necessary to eradicate poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy and many of the diseases that still decimate entire populations in many countries. What is required is the political will to implement the necessary changes to the current international system, which is steering humanity towards self-destruction.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“The purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and in international law are violated when certain States resort to the use and threat of use of force and serious actions against the sovereignty of other nations, including the application of coercive unilateral measures. Member States agreed in the Millennium Declaration (General Assembly resolution 55/2) that freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility were essential values that should guide international relations in the twenty-first century. Those values are negated by the selfishness and brutality of the capitalist neoliberal globalization that has been imposed on international economic, commercial and financial relations.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“Mr. Reyes Rodriguez (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): Cuba welcomes Chile's presidency of the Security Council as a friendly Latin American country and would like to recognize the importance of this open debate convened by your country, Sir. We also welcome the presence among us of President Michelle Bachelet to preside over the work of the Council. She is without a doubt committed to the objectives and cause of the United Nations. International peace and security are not viable without sustainable, equitable and inclusive development that benefits all peoples.”
2015-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7361 (2015) · source
“We reaffirm our commitment to continuing to work to strengthen the central role of the United Nations in adopting measures and devising a comprehensive legal framework to tackle international terrorism. We support multilateral and bilateral cooperation to that end. Cuba is a victim of this scourge, and we are firmly committed to continuing to cooperate with all countries to prevent and punish acts of terrorism.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“Cuba firmly rejects the manipulation of an issue as delicate as international terrorism to use it as political tool against Cuba and demands that Cuba be definitely expunged from that spurious unilateral and arbitrary list, which is also an affront to the people of Cuba and a discredit to the United States Government and its proclaimed commitment to fighting international terrorism. The international community should not accept that certain States should commit acts of aggression, directly or indirectly, against sovereign peoples under the pretext that they are fighting terrorism. We are convinced that an effective fight against terrorism will not be possible if we limit ourselves to condemning only some terrorist acts while silently tolerating or justifying others in seeking to promote our own political and economic interests.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“We reject the double standards of the United States Government's policy by which it refuses to try and allows to remain free the perpetrators of terrorist acts against Cuba, including Luis Posada Carriles, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack against civil aviation in the Western hemisphere, which led to the explosion in mid-flight of a Cubana de Aviacion plane off the Barbados coast on 6 October 1976, killing its 73 passengers. Paradoxically, it continues its prolonged and unjust incarceration of our Cuban counter-terrorism fighters, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labafiino and Antonio Guerrero, who were tried for crimes that they had not committed.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“Including Cuba on this list is yet another excuse to continue to justify the blockage against us that has been in place for more than 50 years and which has been overwhelmingly repudiated by the international community. For decades Cuba has suffered the consequences of terrorist acts organized, financed and carried out from United States territory and resulting in 3,478 people killed and 2,099 disabled, only because they tried to defend their independence, sovereignty and dignity as Cubans.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“My country reiterates its support for the adoption of a comprehensive convention on international terrorism that would close existing loopholes. It also favours the convening of an international conference under United Nations auspices for a coordinated response of the international community against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Unfortunately, the opposition of a small number of States has made all such action impossible. On 30 April, the Department of State of the United States of America issued its Country Reports on Terrorism 2013, in which, for the thrity-second time, it maintained its absurb designation of Cuba as a State sponsor of terrorism.”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“Mr. Reyes Rodriguez (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): We fully support the statement made by the representative of Iran on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. Cuba reiterates its deepest rejection and condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations; by whomever, against whomsoever and wherever they may occur; and whatever their motivations, including cases in which States are directly or indirectly involved. The fight against terrorism must include prevention, direct confrontation and the implementation of concrete actions against its root causes. Cuba is a party to 16 international conventions on terrorism, and strictly fulfils its obligations under resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004).”
2014-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7316 (2014) · source
“We reject unilateral actions and those taken outside the United Nations, such as those of the United States, which is launching air strikes across boundaries of sovereign States in clear violation of international law. We recall that it is the duty of the Council to promote peace, not violence; to avoid destabilization and not to contribute to financing, arming and training those who would destabilize.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“We condemn all acts of violence taking place in that country against the civilian population, but the supposed protection of human lives and the fight against terrorists cannot be used as a pretext for foreign intervention. Cuba reiterates its condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism in all their forms and manifestations, wherever and by whomever they are committed, including State terrorism. We condemn all the acts of terrorism that have taken place in the Middle East and any support of irregular armed groups, including the use of mercenaries, which sows only destruction and death and attempts to obstruct the settlement of this conflict through diplomatic channels.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“Cuba reiterates its support for the Palestinian people in its just struggle for self- determination. We demand an end to the occupation of all Arab territories and reiterate our position in favour of a just and lasting peace for all the peoples of the Middle East. We reiterate our call for the safeguarding of the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Syria and for the right to self-determination of its people without foreign interference or intervention of any kind. Foreign intervention in Syria must stop. Cuba reiterates its opposition to the calls of those who promote regime change in the Syrian Arab Republic and are committed to the use of force and violence. We cannot but reiterate our serious concern at the loss of innocent life resulting from the Syrian conflict.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“Such aggressive Israeli colonizing policies and practices deliberately contravene United Nations resolutions, international law and international humanitarian law; constitute a threat to regional and international peace and security; and deprive the Palestinian people of their fundamental human rights. Only the end of the colonization policy, the release of Palestinian prisoners and the recognition of the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people will allow for the launching of a meaningful political process that could lead to lasting peace in the region. The deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, where living conditions have been excacerbated by the most recent atrocious bombardment, requires the urgent attention and support of the international community.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“The construction and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, the building of the wall of shame in the occupied Palestinian territory, the destruction and confiscation of Palestinian land and property, the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families and the transfer of settlers into occupied Palestinian territory are unacceptable. Following the recent announcement by the Israeli Government of the construction of over 2,000 new Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, we demand the immediate and complete cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territories.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“We fully support the Palestinian initiative seeking a Security Council resolution setting a deadline for the end of the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories that began in 1967 and permitting the exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination in an independent Palestinian State within its pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. The General Assembly took an historic decision when its members adopted the majority resolution 67/19, granting Palestine non-Member observer State status in the United Nations. The international community must continue to support the Palestinian people in their legitimate call for the establishment of an independent Palestinian State and its admission as a full Member of the United Nations.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“The Security Council, revealing once again its characteristic double standards, stood silently by as Israel murdered over 2,000 Palestinians, most of them children, women and elderly, and we again bore witnesss as Israel's massive military might destroyed homes, livelihoods, basic services and infrastructure. Cuba reiterates that the Security Council must uphold the duties with which it is entrusted by defending international peace and security and by adopting, without delay, specific and practical measures to bring to an end once and for all Israel's aggression against the Palestinian people, and to hold it accountable for the crimes of aggression, collective punishment, arbitrary arrests, mass imprisonment and genocide committed against this people.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“Mr. Reyes Rodriguez (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): Cuba once again expresses its pleasure at seeing you, Madam, preside over the Security Council. We commend you for the manner in which you have discharged you duties, as during its prior presidency. We fully support the statement made by the representative of Iran on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. The Middle East situation has worsened in recent months and the international community remains highly attuned to developments there. The crimes committed by Israel in its latest aggression against the Palestinian people shocked global public opinion. Israel again acted with impunity.”
2014-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7281 (2014) · source
“In conclusion, I would like clarify for the representative of Israel that the over 1,000 Jewish people living in Cuba enjoy every right and privilege, including the right to emigrate to Israel, which is a right that they exercise freely. What does not exist in Cuba today is the concept of Judaism as a bellicose cause or a pretext for indiscriminate attacks against innocent civilians. In Cuba, the Jewish people are Communist while at the same time practicing their Judaism, as their own religion, and enjoying the exercise of their full rights. In Cuba, the Jewish people do not participate in indiscriminate bombings against innocent civilians.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“The plan seeks to make young Cubans into agents of destabilization, promotes measures contrary to the constitutional order endorsed by the Cuban people and has used, beginning in 2009, young Latin Americans recruited to that end. American officials, who have condoned the authorship and implementation of the plan, are showing the hostile and intrusive nature of their policy towards Cuba, the goal of which is to destabilize the country in order to overthrow the political, economic and social order established by the Cuban people. Cuba demands the cessation of all subversive, interventionist, illegal and covert actions by the United States.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“How are we to understand the Council's passivity and ineffectiveness faced with the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, who are victims of an excessive and indiscriminate use of force? It is undoubtedly a question that has no answer, given how much remains to be done by the Security Council and the international community on conflict prevention. Cuba reiterates its call for an end to all acts undermining the sovereignty and the right to self- determination of any State. We therefore reiterate here our resounding rejection of the recent plan funded by the United States Agency for International Development, which runs contrary to the Cuban people's exercise of their right to self-determination.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“The Security Council certainly has an important role to play with regard to conflict prevention, but it must perform those functions in accordance with the powers granted to it under the Charter of the United Nations. The members of the Security Council should advocate peaceful solutions and show a strong, effective and clear resistance to the recourse to war. They should take every opportunity to adopt courses of action that safeguard the lives of people involved or affected by conflict. They should never promote armed confrontation, much less be champions of the philosophy of regime change, which in practice contradicts the pacifist essence of the Organization. However, we do condemn Council inaction before prolonged conflicts, such as that between Israel and Palestine.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“Mr. Reyes Rodriguez (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): It is not enough to try to eliminate existing conflicts in the world or to create mechanisms designed to prevent them; it is necessary that the root causes that induce them and nurture them be eradicated. Many conflicts result from the interests of hegemonic and imperialist domination, acts of aggression, the struggle to control natural resources, persistent colonialist and neocolonialist strategies and practices, today's unfair and exclusionary international order, unequal exchange, discrimination, xenophobia, interventionism and violations of the right to self-determination of peoples. What is required to prevent conflicts is solidarity, international cooperation and assistance, and joint action to eliminate poverty, unemployment, hunger, inequality and their root causes.”
2014-08-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7247 (2014) · source
“I conclude by urging all delegations to actively celebrate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on 26 September.”
2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source
“In particular, the General Assembly, as the most democratic and representative organ of the Organization, is the appropriate body to comprehensively address that threat, without double standards and with true international cooperation in that area on the basis of mutual respect, sovereign equality and the principles and norms of international law, including the Charter of the United Nations. We reiterate the position of the Cuban Government against weapons of mass destruction and with regard to the prevention and confrontation of international terrorism. As a demonstration of our Government's commitment to that issue, Cuba will soon submit to the Security Council a new compliance report on resolution 1540 (2004).”
2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source
“That absurd designation reflects the manipulation of the highly sensitive issue of international terrorism to make it an instrument of the policy against Cuba. We demand that our country be permanently excluded from that spurious, unilateral and illegitimate list, which violates the principles of international law, is an offense to the Cuban people and discredits the United States Government. International cooperation by all States in the framework of the United Nations and the relevant international treaties is the way to deal with the use of weapons ofmass destruction by terrorists.”
2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source
“We also condemn any action aimed at encouraging, supporting, financing or concealing any terrorist actions, methods or practices. We believe that the international community should not accept that, under the banner of an alleged fight against terrorism, certain States commit acts of aggression and interfere in the internal affairs of other States, execute or permit gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law or commit unilateral actions that are contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and the principles and norms of international law. We vehemently reject the arbitrary and unjustifiable inclusion of Cuba on the annual list of the State Department of the United States on so-called State sponsors of international terrorism, which was issued on 30 April.”
2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source
“It also ignores the goal of the total elimination of weapons of mass destruction. For its part, Cuba has an impeccable record in the fight against terrorism and has never allowed, and never will allow, terrorist acts against any country to be conducted, planned or financed on Cuban territory. Cuba is a party to 16 ofthe existing international conventions on terrorism and has complied strictly with its obligations under resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004) and other related Security Council resolutions. We reiterate our absolute rejection of all terrorist actions, methods and practices in all their forms and manifestations by anybody, against anybody and wherever they are committed, whatever their motives may be, including those actions in which States are directly or indirectly involved.”
2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source
“In Cuba, all programmes related to the nuclear, chemical and biological fields have always been strictly peaceful in nature and their benefits have been used solely for the welfare of the Cuban people and their socioeconomic development. All such programmes are continually and rigorously monitored by the relevant national authorities and subject to supervision by the competent international entities. Cuba rejects the selective focus and double standards that some countries attempt to impose in addressing issues related to disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control and their connection to the threat of terrorism. This focus promotes measures against horizontal proliferation while ignoring vertical proliferation - that is, the improvement of nuclear weapons by States that possess nuclear weapons.”
2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source
“Mr. Reyes Rodriguez (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): Aware of the danger that the mere existence of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, poses to all humankind, Cuba remains firmly in favour of their prohibition and elimination. For Cuba, the prohibition and total elimination of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons is the only way to ensure their non-proliferation and to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorists or from being used by accident or mistake. Cuba does not possess or intends to possess any weapons ofmass destruction ofany kind, and possessing them has never formed part of our national defence strategy.”
2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source
“Just a few days ago, on 29 January, the leaders of theStates members of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, meeting at the second Summit of the Community in Havana, declared Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace, as part of a comprehensive process that seeks to end forever the threat or use of force as a means of resolving conflicts, social inequality, poverty, illiteracy and the lack of free and universal access to basic services such as health and education - a world guided by solidarity and cooperation among our peoples to achieve prosperity and a region where human rights are promoted and protected, including the rights to development and to live in full freedom and dignity.”
2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source
“It is impossible to advocate for the effective protection of civilians in conflicts while at the same time being complicit in the crimes being committed against the Palestinian people and other Arab peoples under occupation. The region of Latin America and the Caribbean has taken a leading role in promoting peace and the peaceful resolution of disputes.”
2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source
“On 26 September, we will mark the first International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, as declared by the General Assembly in its resolution 68/32. The humanitarian consequences of such weapons are part of the problem, and Cuba advocates that they be addressed with the same approach. It is impossible to advocate for the effective protection of civilians in conflicts while at the same time defending the use of nuclear weapons as part of military doctrines. It is impossible to advocate for the effective protection ofcivilians in armed conflicts while at the same time stoking armed clashes and supplying weapons to non-State actors, as is occurring at present in Syria.”
2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source
“The General Assembly should consider them with a view to preventing such technologies from being used to commit extrajudicial killings and other crimes against innocent civilians. In addition, those responsible must face justice and be held accountable for their crimes. The Security Council should not stand on the sidelines of those issues. The report of the Secretary-General remains silent once again on the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, despite the fact that some nuclear-weapon States stand ready to use them, even in conventional conflicts. The international community is redoubling its efforts to finally achieve the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons, which is the only sustainable solution in response to the immense threat they pose.”
2014-02-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7109 (2014) · source