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UN: Cuba Highlights Care Granted to Disabled People

Cuba guarantees particular attention to people with disabilities, based on the support of government institutions and civil society, according to reports delivered during the Social Forum that continues today in Geneva»

Cuban Foreign Minister in US for Vote Against Blockade

Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez is in New York to attend a new vote of the UN General Assembly on the need to put end to the US blockade against the Island. Rodriguez who arrived to this city yesterday, will speak on Tuesday to the plenary of 193 countries, in which forum in the last 23 years Washington’s siege have »

Raul Castro Highlights World Support against US Blockade

Cuban President Raul Castro thanked at UN the unanimous support of the international community to stop the economic, financial and trade blockade of the island, imposed by the United States more than half a century ago. Speaking in the first day of discussions at the top-level Summit of the UN General Assembly, the president highlighted that 188 Governments and countries »

Cuba President Raul Castro Continues Broad Agenda at UN

Cuban President, Raul Castro, continues this September 28th, his extensive work program at UN, where he will deliver a speech at the high-level segment of the General Assembly. According to the list of speakers circulated, the president of the Caribbean island is scheduled to speak this afternoon, at 15:00 local time. The Assembly establishes today its general debate in the »

ECLAC Analyses Effects of U.S. Blockade on Cuba

Cuba has been prevented from receiving 117 billion dollars in profit because of the US economic blockade imposed for more than half a century, according to ECLAC, the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.»