According to a statement issued by Deputy Foreign Minister Anayansi Rodríguez, as part of the process requested by the United Nations General Assembly on December 30, 2022, Cuba requested a statement on the legal consequences resulting from Israel’s practices and policies against the Palestinian people.

The presentation before the Court next week will also allow Cuba to defend its arguments regarding the legal responsibility that arises for all States and the United Nations.

The brief presented by Cuba to the ICJ on June 25, 2023, as part of the process, demands a clear and direct statement establishing all the legal consequences resulting from genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the apartheid regime that the Palestinian people have undergone for years at the hands of Israel.

For more than 70 years, the Palestinian people have been denied their right to self-determination and have been subjected to a policy of permanent, low-intensity genocide whose purpose is the clear extermination of their population, Rodríguez stated.

In her statement, the Cuban deputy foreign minister charged that this occurs with the complicity of some powers such as the United States, which guarantees impunity to Israel and prevents any effective actions by the United Nations system, with the use of its veto power in the Security Council.

Rodríguez reaffirmed the urgency of a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict on the basis of the creation of two States, which will allow the people of Palestine to exercise their right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign State within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that will guarantee the right of return for refugees.

Cuba stresses, legally, that both Israel and its accomplices must be declared responsible for the genocide that the Palestinian people have experienced for decades, the deputy foreign minister noted.

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