MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban regime opposed the intervention of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the annual high-level debates of the UN General Assembly, according to reported the news agency EFE.
Although Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Nicaragua and Syria were also opposed, the member states overwhelmingly approved kyiv’s request so that Zelensky can speak before the rest of the world leaders without having to travel to New York, given the state of war in your country.
In this way, Zelensky will be able to intervene next week in the high-level debates of the General Assembly with a pre-recorded video.
Although Russia opposed kyiv’s request on the grounds that countries whose leaders are not in person at the UN headquarters are represented by ministers or diplomats, its position was rejected by 101 countries (19 abstained and only seven spoke against it). ).
Although at the beginning of March this year, the Cuban government abstained in the vote on a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, approved by the United Nations General Assembly with 141 votes in favor, the island’s regime has shown its support for the Russian invaders in that and other international forums .
In fact, the day before, Havana had ratified its support for Russia, during an emergency session of the General Assembly in which the majority of the member states of the organization condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In advance, the island’s regime also voted against holding the debate sessions that began at the end of last February.
“The draft resolution on the situation in Ukraine, not approved in the Security Council on February 25, was not conceived as a real contribution to the search for solutions to the current crisis. The text under consideration by this General Assembly suffers from the same shortcomings and from the necessary balance”, said the permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta.
Ukraine has criticized the Cuban regime’s support for the Kremlin. At the end of February, the charge d’affaires of the Ukrainian Embassy in Havana, Oleksandr Kalinchuk, said to CubaNet that the official declaration of the Island’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not acceptable.
“Cuba supports the Russian Federation -which carries out criminal acts- and considers that Russia’s motivations to start the aggression against Ukraine are just; condemns the supply of arms to Ukraine, which is so just and vitally necessary; it claims that the United States is the country responsible for the war in Ukraine and many others,” she said.
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