
His Excellency Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, received the Cuban Ambassador, Juana Elena Ramos Rodríguez, at the Presidential Secretariat. Both parties highlighted the historical relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, as well as expressed their interest in continuing to strengthen them.
Cuba declared at the Open Debate of the Security Council on “Maintenance of international peace and security: implementation of resolution 2532” the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a global challenge that has sparked a crisis of manifold and ravaging effects, not only for health, but also for the economy, trade and our societies at large”.
Today, at the opening session of the Special Committee on the Charter, Ambassador Ana Silvia Rodríguez Abascal, Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, declared her country´s support for the strengthening of the leading role of the General Assembly as the chief regulatory, deliberative, policy-making and representative organ of the United Nations.