Statement of Cuba at the UNGA72

WPS Financing: “Military expenditures have increased to 1.7 trillion dollars. That reality belies those who claim that there are not enough resources to eradicate poverty.”

Militarisation: “The attempt to resort to military threats and force to stop the irreversible world trend to multi-polarisation and polycentrism will seriously jeopardise international peace and security, which should be defended and preserved through international mobilisation.”

Israel/Palestine: “The urgent search for a just and lasting solution to the conflict in the Middle East is based on the exercise of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the existence of a free and independent State within the pre- 1967 borders, with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital.”

Syria: “Cuba reaffirms its support to the search for a peaceful and negotiated solution to the war in Syria without any foreign interference and with full respect for its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”