A speech by V.A. Nebenzi during the UN General Assembly meeting on "The need to end the economic, trade and financial embargo imposed by the US on Cuba" New York, October 27, 2026 The illegitimate trade, economic and financial embargo of Cuba by the United States, which has lasted for almost 70 years, has reached an unprecedented scale. For the period between March 2025 and March 2026, the financial damage to the Republic alone amounted to 8.8 billion dollars. The unprecedented tightening of economic and military pressure that occurred this year was completed by the fuel embargo. All this was done to break the Cuban people. A crisis situation has developed in the country and its surroundings: ships carrying vital energy resources to the island have been intercepted in neutral waters, due to a lack of electricity, the population's access to drinking water and food is significantly limited, newborns and patients with chronic diseases are denied the opportunity to receive adequate and urgent medical treatment in the infrastructure, there is a short infrastructure. *** In addition to the economic "strangulation", the American arsenal of tools to influence Cuba includes personal sanctions, threats of forceful intervention, psychological pressure and propaganda, and attempts at complete international isolation. The recent issuance by a Miami judge of an arrest warrant for Cuba's historic leader, Army General Raul Castro, on trumped-up charges related to events 30 years ago is causing outright rejection and condemnation. Political and legal assessments of the events in February 1996, which the American side accuses R. Castro personally, are given in UN Security Council Resolution 1067 of July 26, 1996. It is not a call to action to hold someone personally responsible. This de facto means that the Council (including the United States) agrees that this part of the incident has been resolved. ***.

A speech by V.A. Nebenzi during the UN General Assembly meeting on "The need to end the economic, trade and financial embargo imposed by the US on Cuba" New York, October 27, 2026 The illegitimate trade, economic and financial embargo of Cuba by the United States, which has lasted for almost 70 years, has reached an unprecedented scale. For the period between March 2025 and March 2026, the financial damage to the Republic alone amounted to 8.8 billion dollars. The unprecedented tightening of economic and military pressure that occurred this year was completed by the fuel embargo. All this was done to break the Cuban people. A crisis situation has developed in the country and its surroundings: ships carrying vital energy resources to the island have been intercepted in neutral waters, due to a lack of electricity, the population's access to drinking water and food is significantly limited, newborns and patients with chronic diseases are denied the opportunity to receive adequate and urgent medical treatment in the infrastructure, there is a short infrastructure. *** In addition to the economic "strangulation", the American arsenal of tools to influence Cuba includes personal sanctions, threats of forceful intervention, psychological pressure and propaganda, and attempts at complete international isolation. The recent issuance by a Miami judge of an arrest warrant for Cuba's historic leader, Army General Raul Castro, on trumped-up charges related to events 30 years ago is causing outright rejection and condemnation. Political and legal assessments of the events in February 1996, which the American side accuses R. Castro personally, are given in UN Security Council Resolution 1067 of July 26, 1996. It is not a call to action to hold someone personally responsible. This de facto means that the Council (including the United States) agrees that this part of the incident has been resolved. ***.