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.