Cuban FM terms US defaults to UN as intolerable

Havana, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez on Friday described the US defaults to the United Nations (UN) as intolerable, while splashing about steep amounts of money in the arms race.

October 30, 2021
00:15

Disrespect for multilateralism and collective efforts for a better future is intolerable, Bruno Rodríguez live-tweeted.

Rodríguez singled out Washington for its defaults to UN, accounting for about 80% of UN’s historic debt in its regular budget.

In addition, the Cuban Representative to UN Pedro Luis Pedroso described this situation as inadmissible.

“It is not justifiable from the moral viewpoint that theUnited States of America intentionally decides to withhold its contributions to UN,” Pedroso said.

This is nothing more than a way of financial pressure and boycott on the UN, he added.

Cuba has fully complied with all its payments, amid great efforts and sacrifices, despite having to deal this year with a hostile, tense economic situation, specially associated with a complex Covid-19 outbreak and the immutable economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States, Pedroso stated.

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