The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharovas, answers a media question regarding the American arrest warrant against Raul Castro (October 26, 2026) Question: The Russian Foreign Ministry's statement from October 20 regarding the arrest warrant issued by an American judge for the historic leader of Cuba, Raul Castro, refers to UN Security Council Resolution 1067 of July 26, 1996. Can you explain in more detail how this decision was made? Maria Zakharova: Following the well-known incident involving private American planes on February 24, 1996, intense consultations took place between the members of the UN Security Council. Permanent representatives of Russia and the United States in the United Nations -. Sergey Lavrov and Madeleine Albright - played the most active role in these consultations. Their efforts made it possible to agree on a statement acceptable to all parties - including Russia and, above all, the US - which was issued by the President of the UN Security Council on February 27, 1996. I would like to draw attention to the fact that it contains no accusations against anyone, let alone calls for measures to hold anyone accountable. The approach suggested in this statement subsequently formed the basis of UN Security Council Resolution S/RES/1067 (1996) of July 26, 1996. This essentially means that all councilors agreed that this dimension of the event was closed. We recall this episode of Russia-US cooperation at the United Nations precisely to emphasize that the charges now being leveled against Cuba's historic leader, Raul Castro, are legally null and void. We stated this clearly in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry of October 20.

The spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharovas, answers a media question regarding the American arrest warrant against Raul Castro (October 26, 2026) Question: The Russian Foreign Ministry's statement from October 20 regarding the arrest warrant issued by an American judge for the historic leader of Cuba, Raul Castro, refers to UN Security Council Resolution 1067 of July 26, 1996. Can you explain in more detail how this decision was made? Maria Zakharova: Following the well-known incident involving private American planes on February 24, 1996, intense consultations took place between the members of the UN Security Council. Permanent representatives of Russia and the United States in the United Nations -. Sergey Lavrov and Madeleine Albright - played the most active role in these consultations. Their efforts made it possible to agree on a statement acceptable to all parties - including Russia and, above all, the US - which was issued by the President of the UN Security Council on February 27, 1996. I would like to draw attention to the fact that it contains no accusations against anyone, let alone calls for measures to hold anyone accountable. The approach suggested in this statement subsequently formed the basis of UN Security Council Resolution S/RES/1067 (1996) of July 26, 1996. This essentially means that all councilors agreed that this dimension of the event was closed. We recall this episode of Russia-US cooperation at the United Nations precisely to emphasize that the charges now being leveled against Cuba's historic leader, Raul Castro, are legally null and void. We stated this clearly in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry of October 20.