![]() The current Government of the United States maintains the most aggressive pressure measures against our country adopted by President Donald Trump's government. The blockade is an act of economic war in peacetime. The human damage that this policy generates for all Cuban families, impossible to quantify, is enormous, cruel and immoral. The Government of the United States reinforces the pressures on governments, banking institutions and companies around the world interested in interacting with Cuba, and obsessively pursues all sources of income and entry of foreign currency into the country, to provoke economic collapse.Īs a result, the Cuban economy has experienced extraordinary pressures, which are manifested in industry, the provision of services, the shortage of food and medicine and the deterioration of the level of consumption and general well-being of the population. ![]() The effort persists to generate material shortages, scarcity, suffering, sow discouragement, dissatisfaction and cause damage to the Cuban people. Thirty years after the first resolution of this Assembly against the blockade, the Government of the United States continues to ignore the almost unanimous demand of the international community to cease its illegal and cruel policy against Cuba. The American offensive aimed at subjugating States through economic, military and political-diplomatic threat and coercion, to subject them to an order based on their capricious rules, together with the expansion of NATO and the development of an aggressive doctrine and the fifth-generation unconventional war, inevitably lead to a climate of tension and conflict, the consequences of which are unpredictable.Ĭuba, a small island developing state, has paid a high price for defending its legitimate right to exist as a sovereign and independent nation.įor more than six decades we have resisted a ruthless and unilateral economic, commercial and financial blockade that has intensified to extreme extent, at unprecedented levels since 2019 and during the pandemic. International relations are on a very dangerous path. The "philosophy of war and dispossession," and the irrational patterns of production and consumption of capitalism, denounced by President Fidel Castro, will lead to catastrophe. We have only one Earth, the only home of all, rich and poor. We can't continue ignoring the alarms that warn about the imminent climate catastrophe. The last seven years are the warmest ever registered. The average sea level has reached a new high. Greenhouse gases recorded record concentrations in 2021, and it will be the same in 2022. How much more could we do if these resources were used to promote health and development? How many deaths from COVID-19 and other causes could have been avoided? How many children would be saved from hunger and preventable or curable diseases? ![]() We advocate for the universality of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. There is no justification for humanity to continue to be threatened by the existence of almost 13,000 nuclear weapons. Paradoxically, global military spending is growing rapidly and exceeds two billion dollars for the first time. The foreign debt has been paid several times, but it multiplies. In 2021, pharmaceutical transnationals earned $84,588 million. Vaccines to deal with it are inaccessible to a billion people in low-income countries. In the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, 773 million human beings do not know how to read or write.Ībout 6.5 million people have died due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unemployment will affect 207 million people in 2022, 21 million more than in 2019. Humanity never had this formidable scientific-technical potential, nor this extraordinary capacity to generate wealth and well-being, and yet, never before has the world been so unequal and inequality so profound.Įight hundred and twenty-eight million people, 10% of the world's population, suffer from hunger, and about 50 million children suffer from wasting, the deadliest form of malnutrition. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, as never before, the true essence of the unjust and unsustainable prevailing international order. New York, September 21, 2022Ĭlick Here for the full speech transcription in Spanish Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, in the General Debate of the High Level Segment of the United Nations General Assembly.
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