United Nations/The delegations of Cuba and the United States participated in a tense meeting this Tuesday at the UN General Assembly, where the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, accused the US ambassador to the organization, Mike Waltz, of “lying in a crude manner.”
Rodríguez asked the presidency of the Assembly to intervene while Waltz gave his speech during the plenary session on Washington’s sanctions on the Island. “The United States not only lies, deviating from the topic, but also expresses itself in a rude and arrogant manner,” said the chancellor.
“(He expresses himself) with a lack of culture, rudeness and rudeness that is not accepted in this democratic venue. This is the United Nations General Assembly, it is not a Signal group or the House of Representatives,” added the Cuban Foreign Minister.
In response, Waltz said he was “very aware of the location we are talking about” and stated that it is not “an illegitimate communist legislature in Havana either.”
“He has oppressed his own people and steals from them so that, I quote, members of the regime can maintain their elite status”
“This is a place where we speak with facts and the truth is that the Cuban regime has undermined the democracies of our hemisphere. It has oppressed its own people and steals from them so that, I quote, the members of the regime can maintain their elite status,” said the US representative.
Furthermore, referencing Rodríguez’s comment on Signal, he added that he does not need to utter these words “in any type of chat”: “I say it in front of everyone and it is well known in the Western Hemisphere by those who pay attention.”
The UN General Assembly is holding today and tomorrow the debate and subsequent vote on the non-binding resolution on the embargo on Cuba by the United States.
According to diplomatic sources consulted by EFE, the traditional regional unanimity will be broken by the vote against Argentina, which will join the United States and Israel, the only countries that have almost always voted against, with the exception of the abstention in 2016. That year, in full thaw, Cuba achieved the best diplomatic result in history, not having any negative votes.
In 2024, it was speculated that Argentina, already governed by Javier Milei, would vote in the same direction as the United States and Israel, but the chancellor maintained the country’s historical position, which led to her departure from office. It is taken for granted that the situation will not occur again this year, but there are more possible ruptures of traditional positions.
It is taken for granted that the situation will not occur again this year, but there are more possible ruptures of traditional positions
“Cuba will undoubtedly obtain majority support this Tuesday and Wednesday in the debate and vote on its non-binding resolution on the blockade (embargo), but it is very likely that it will obtain the largest number of votes against since it first presented this initiative in 1992. A somewhat bitter victory,” a source told EFE.
According to this testimony, the European Union has had doubts about its traditional vote and “some members of the eastern flank doubt whether to support Havana after the information that links it to Russia in the invasion of Ukraine.”
However, the EU appears to have reached a consensus to maintain its condemnation of the embargo and subsequently issue a statement making clear its “common rejection of any sending of mercenaries to Russia.”
