Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, addresses the general debate of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, September 25 – October 01, 2018). In his address to the UN General Assembly, the President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel decried the US blockade of the Caribbean nation as “a cruel policy, punishing Cuban families and the entire nation.” President Diaz-Canel said “Cuba stands ready to develop respectful and civilized relations with the US government on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect” but he underlined that “the essential and defining element of the bilateral relationship” between the US and Cuba is “the blockade, which seeks to suffocate the Cuban economy in order to generate hardships and disrupt the constitutional order.” The United States has imposed an economic embargo on Cuba in 1960, after the Cuban revolutionary government nationalized American-owned companies. Diaz-Canel said the embargo “seeks to suffocate the Cuban economy in order to generate hardships and disrupt the constitutional order. It is a cruel policy, punishing Cuban families and the entire nation.” The Cuban President reiterated “absolute support to the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution, the civic-military union of the Venezuelan people and its legitimate and democratic government, led by the constitutional president Nicolas Maduros Moros.” He added “we reject the intervention attempts and sanctions against Venezuela, aimed at suffocating her economically and hurting the Venezuelan families.” Miguel-Diaz Canel, who wasn’t even born when Fidel Castro led the revolution in Cuba in 1959 told the General Assembly “the generational change in our government should not raise the hopes ofthe enemies of the Revolution. We are the continuity, not a rupture. Cuba has continued taking steps to improve its model of economic and social development in order to build a sovereign, independent. socialist, democratic, prosperous and sustainable nation. This is the path that our people has freely chosen.” In April 2018, Migel Diaz-Canel succeded Raul Castro as the President of Cuba after a secret vote in the country's National Assembly. ---------------------------------------- Watch General Debate of the General Assembly (in original language) unwebtv.live/73_UNGA_FL متابعة باللغة العربية أعمال المداولات العامة رفيعة المستوى للجمعيه العامة unwebtv.live/73_UNGA_AR 敬请收看联合国大会一般性辩论（中文同声传译） unwebtv.live/73_UNGA_ZH Suivez le débat de l'Assemblée générale (en français) unwebtv.live/73_UNGA_FR Transmisión del debate de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas (en español) unwebtv.live/73_UNGA-ES Смотрите Общие прения Генеральной Ассамблеи (на русском) unwebtv.live/73_UNGA_RU #UNGA #UnitedNations

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