Ambassador Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, was elected vice president of the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
“We receive this responsibility as a commitment to continue fighting through our work in the Committee and in the United Nations in favor of a genuine peace process in that region of the world,” said Ambassador Yuri Gala López after the election, this Wednesday, Chargé d’Affaires ai of the Permanent Mission of Cuba.
According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry on its website, the diplomat reiterated his country’s most energetic rejection of the use of disproportionate and indiscriminate force by Israel against Palestinian civilians in the occupied territory, particularly the Gaza Strip, in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and International Humanitarian Law.
Likewise, he called to stop the indiscriminate bombings against the population in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians from the land that rightfully belongs to them.
“The impunity with which the Israeli government acts, which can only be explained by its confidence that it will not be held accountable for its actions, must end,” he added.
He considered it unacceptable that the Security Council continues to fail to enforce its own resolutions to put an end to Israel’s crimes, in which the United States has been complicit by repeatedly obstructing and using its veto to prevent the action of this multilateral body, undermining regional peace, security and stability.
Regarding the decision of the Government of Cuba to intervene in the contentious procedure initiated by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice, the Ambassador argued that Havana will make use of its right to present, as a Third State, its interpretation of the norms of the Convention that Israel has flagrantly violated with its actions in the illegally occupied Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip.
“Genocide, Apartheid, forced displacement and collective punishments cannot have a place in today’s world, nor can they be tolerated by the international community,” he concluded.
