On social media, Rodriguez highlighted the approval of the Country Programme for the island by the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), by a large majority of its member states, in favor of continuing cooperation with the Caribbean nation.

In the post, the head of Cuban diplomacy said that this “shows the will of the international community and the United Nations system to continue cooperating with our country on development projects,” and even more so, it occurs “despite the unprecedented intensification of the US blockade,” he emphasized.

The approval came with the sole dissenting vote from the US, “evidence of its isolationist policy and its marked interest in limiting our development and suffocating our economy and our people,” the Cuban Foreign Minister remarked.

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