Cuban President Raul Castro, will address today at the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly.
Cuban President Raul Castro, will address today at the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly.
According to the list of speakers here, the leader of the Caribbean archipelago will deliver his speech in the third round at noon, scheduled for 3: 00 pm.
The Assembly sets Monday its general debate attended by over 140 heads of State or Government, forum scheduled for October 3, in which the role of issues such as world peace, climate change, fight against terrorism and the impetus for the post-2015 sustainable development agenda is expected.
Upon arriving in New York, last Thursday, Raul Castro has carried out a wide program of activities that included meetings with world leaders and American personalities and leading the ceremonies of establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Palau and the Marshall Islands.
The head of state of the archipelago spoke with the presidents of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro; Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi; and Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, and the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lefven and exchanged greetings in a first informal meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Cuban president also visited US former President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) in a hotel in the Big Apple and received at the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Raul Castro also spoke here with businessmen, congressmen and solidarity activists.
The day before, a group of people gathered on the Central Lexington Avenue, in Manhattan, where the Cuban Mission in located, deployed welcoming posters for the arrival of the Cuban head of states and claimed for the cease of the economic, commercial and financial blockade that for more than half a century Washington keeps against Havana.
Translation: Ilia Charon