The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, reaffirmed Cuba’s high regard for the work of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and its extensive work in support of this cause.

On Wednesday afternoon, at the Palace of the Revolution, the Head of State received a delegation from the Committee’s Bureau, which is on a working visit, and reiterated the feelings of Cuba and the Cuban people towards the Arab country. “We,” he said, “are a sister nation to Palestine.”

The president recalled that the island was among the co-founders of the Committee and emphasized the important role it plays within the United Nations and other organizations in addressing the Palestinian cause.

In thanking him for the reception, His Excellency Coly Seck, president of the Palestine Committee and permanent representative of the Republic of Senegal to the UN, highlighted the time that the Cuban president set aside for this meeting amid so many other commitments.

After introducing the members of the Committee’s Bureau accompanying him, Ambassador Seck explained that, as part of the United Nations General Assembly, it is composed of 25 members and 24 observers who “share the view that Palestine must be free, that Palestine must be a sovereign state,” objectives for which they work and develop a broad agenda both at the UN and within other multilateral organizations.

The meeting was attended by Political Bureau member Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Emilio Lozada García, head of the International Relations Department of the Party Central Committee; Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; and other officials.

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly, established in 1975, with the primary responsibility of mobilizing international support for a peaceful, just, and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the two-state solution, and whose central focus is the promotion of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, national independence, sovereignty, and the return of refugees.

Cuba, which has historically maintained an unwavering position in defense of and solidarity with the just cause of the Palestinian people, is a founding member and holds one of the vice-presidencies of the Committee, with a permanent commitment to contribute as much as possible to legitimate international efforts aimed at ending the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people.

Since October 7, 2023, the beginning of one of the cruelest genocides that humanity remembers and will remember, Israel’s massacre against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Cuba has made clear its position, not only of condemnation of the crime, or of perennial denunciation of the violation of the rights of innocent civilians, but also of recognition of the Palestinian State.
Deep bonds of friendship unite us with this people, brave and defending their land to the last consequences -like us-. Cuba has loudly expressed its condemnation of the harsh reality that the Palestinians have been facing for decades, erased from their own map, as Israel and the U.S. now want to do, after a long genocide: to remove them forever from their lands.
This feeling of solidarity has mobilized millions of Cubans, who from squares, schools, workplaces, social networks and even with the use of the traditional Palestinian kufiya, have become part of a struggle that has added hearts.
Our side is the side of justice, the side of truth, the side that gives voice to the thousands of children, women, young people, the elderly, and parents, silenced under the roar of bombs made in the U.S., in front of unarmed and defenseless people.
It is no coincidence that Cuba then occupies the Vice-Presidency of the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, a gesture that honors us, and that we assume with the commitment that “the unjust should not be indifferent to us”.
At the United Nations, we will continue to be a pillar in calling for a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the recognition of an independent Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders.
This was made clear yesterday by the ambassador, permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, who also stated that we will continue to denounce the crimes committed in the West Bank and the power that obstructs aid to those who every day find it an ordeal to look for water, food or the most basic services.
Cuba was, is and will always be, together with the Palestinian people.