In her speech at the forum’s General Policy Debate, Cuban Minister of Education Naima Ariatne Trujillo condemned the bombings on Gaza, one of the most densely populated territories on the planet, where homes, hospitals and civil infrastructure have been destroyed.

In this regard, she denounced the humanitarian catastrophe that the Palestinian people are experiencing, which she described as Dantesque, and attributed it to the philosophy of dispossession resulting from 75 years of permanent violation of the Palestinians’ inalienable rights and Israel’s aggressive and expansionist policy.

“Cuba demands a broad, just and lasting solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, based on the creation of two States, which allows the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign State within its borders prior to 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital,” the Cuban minister stressed.

At another point in her speech, Trujillo supported, on behalf of Cuba, the call by United Nations Eduactional, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and in particular by its director general, Audrey Azoulay, to prioritize international dialogue, cooperation and solidarity before differences and political conflicts.

From this same perspective, we repeat the denunciation of the intensification of unilateral coercive measures imposed by some countries on others to the detriment of these principles, she stated. Cuba is one of those besieged nations, in its case by more than 60 years of an economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.

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