Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez celebrated today the international and United Nations (UN) interest in his country’s development. Despite the unprecedented intensification of the US blockade.
On social media, Rodríguez highlighted the approval of the Country Programme for the island by the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). By a large majority of its member states, in favor of continuing cooperation with the Caribbean nation.
In the post, the head of Cuban diplomacy said that this “demonstrates the will of the international community and the United Nations system. To continue cooperating with our country on development projects.” Even more so, it occurs “despite the unprecedented intensification of the US blockade,” he emphasized.
The approval came with the sole dissenting vote from the US. “Evidence of its isolationist policy and its marked interest in limiting our development and stifling our economy and our people,” the Cuban Foreign Minister remarked.
Also the new Country Programme for Cuba will guide the agency’s cooperation work until 2030. According to a Facebook post by the United Nations agency.
Moreover the document mentions the following thematic areas: Economic Recovery and Productive Transformation, Environmental Management and Disaster Risk Reduction, Social and Protection Programs and Services, and Institutional Strengthening and Modernization of Public Administration.
This week, Cuba’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, Ernesto Soberón, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to sustainable development during the First Ordinary Session of the Executive Board.
He emphasized the social model based on universal coverage and free access to social services. Highlighted UNDP’s role as a key partner for more than five decades in preserving these achievements.
On the same stage, Soberón denounced that these objectives are severely hampered by the conditions inherent to a Small Island Developing State. Drastically, by the blockade imposed by the United States government for the past 64 years. And recently intensified with new measures to obstruct fuel supplies.
With information from Prensa Latina
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