Press release from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cuba to the United Nations

For Cuba, it is only one step on the path towards nuclear disarmament.

Venezuela and China have become Cuba s main economic and commercial partners, and may continue to be so.

Churchill had fond memories of Cuba as a ... large, rich, beautiful island ... .

The United States has run out of pretexts for explaining the maintenance of the criminal blockade and other anti Cuban measures.

Only three companies were willing to work in Cuba's exclusive economic zone.

Hopes that Brazil and China would provide cash to Cuba have been dashed by the international financial crisis and geo politics.

Trinity Industries de México, S.A. de C.V., located in Mexico City 55,000, for selling and financing the shipment of goods intended for Cuba in 2001

Letter dated 30 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

Letter dated 6 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman of the Committee

Letter dated 11 March 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

In fact, the United States policy regarding Cuba constituted the main obstacle to the achievement of Cuba's social development goals.

Letter dated 15 August 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

Annex to the letter dated 30 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

Letter dated 24 January 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

Letter dated 1 November 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

Annex to the letter dated 15 August 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

This reminds Castro of the economic dislocations that led the Soviet Union to slash its aid to Cuba in the years before it collapsed.

Annex to the letter dated 24 January 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

Note verbale dated 28 October 2004 from the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman of the Committee

Annex to the letter dated 1 November 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

At issue for Cuba was a unilateral legal act which produced legal effects from the moment it was formulated, regardless of Uruguay's reaction.

The Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to express its strong protest for that arbitrary decision and its complete disagreement with the provided pretexts.

Letter dated 2 February 1990 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S 21120).

So perhaps the best that could be hoped for is a Russian style experiment with liberalization that is quickly called off by the regime s nervous Old Guard.

Annex to the letter dated 6 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country

Potential income to Cuba from the production of an average budget United States film would be 2 million to 5 million, as a conservative estimate.

Note verbale dated 6 September 2005 from the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Permanent Mission of the United States of America to the United Nations

In response to the note verbale sent to all permanent missions by the Secretary General on 14 July 2005, the Permanent Mission of Cuba providing the following information.

A AC.154 362 Letter dated 6 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman of the Committee A C E F R S

They endured 17 long months in solitary confinement and a trial tainted by manipulation, bias and the vengeful hatred of the anti Cuban mafia and its slanders.

Note verbale dated 14 March 2005 from the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

We denounce the intensification of the anti Cuban propaganda campaigns and acts of slander designed to create a pretext for acts of aggression and the genocidal embargo.

Note verbale dated 14 March 2005 from the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations Office at Geneva addressed to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

If the policosanol made in Cuba had been introduced into the United States and accounted for only 1 per cent of the sales, Cuba would have received an income of 180 million from it in 2004.

If it imported only 25 per cent of its annual needs from Cuba, approximately 2,000 tons, Cuba would earn over 66 million at current prices.

Indeed, Brazil doubled its loan to Cuba for the purchase of foodstuffs and medicines, to 200 million, and has arranged projects to rehabilitate Cuba s infrastructure with the participation of Brazilian companies.

Venezuela will continue to export barrels to Cuba at gift prices, and will continue trading at preferential prices with countries of its natural environment, beyond the geographical.

For Cuba what was at issue was a donation, whereas for Uruguay it was a commercial transaction, and it therefore rejected the Cuban act in the sense in which it was intended, a move Cuba opposed.

The accusations that Cuba is promoting terrorism, conducting research programmes for the production of biological weapons, and encouraging drug trafficking and acts of espionage and destabilization are totally false.

Since ill health forced Fidel Castro to retire from Cuba s leadership, Raúl has opened the doors to the military and pushed out even those civilians who had been his brother s trusted associates.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Consequently, Cuba cannot renounce the use of that type of weapon in order to preserve is sovereignty and territorial integrity, in accordance with the right of self defence enshrined in the United Nations Charter.

(1) In March 2005, an order was placed with the firm Vafe S.A. de C.V. for phenol, which is used to manufacture the handles of the cookers. This firm, after advancing the offer, was obliged to halt it, since the material was of United States origin.

Because of its proximity, Cuba would be a natural supplier of nickel, and but for the embargo could be selling the United States over 30,000 tons per year, worth at current prices over 500 million.