Cuba urged industrialized countries to abandon domineering, arrogant and selfish poses and attitudes alien to the spirit that should prevail in a genuine international cooperation for development.

While addressing participants in the general debate of the Second Commission of the UN General Assembly, the Cuban delegate asked these nations to participate in discussions from the perspective of an open, frank and respectful exchange of opinions.

The demand was presented by Cuba’s acting permanent representative at the world organization, Rodolfo Benitez, who warned about the international context marking the current period of sessions.

In this respect, Benítez underlined the various crises the world is facing in the economic, financial, food, energy, environmental and social spheres.

He said that the real cause of these phenomena lies in the current unjust and unsustainable international order, based on patterns of production, consumption and distribution that are profoundly unsustainable.

He noted that the unique circumstances in which Cuba has had to struggle for its development "have made us firm defenders of the need to fight for a new international economic order based on justice, equity and solidarity."

In this regard, he highlighted the successes of the Caribbean island, "in spite of suffering more than five decades the unjust and criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government."

He also referred to the next UN conference on climate change to be held in Cancun, and called to avoid the repetition of the situation lived in the previous meeting in Copenhagen.

Benitez called for the adoption of urgent actions and for an unequivocal commitment of developed countries to reduce their emissions of gases of greenhouse effect, the historic accumulation of which they’re the main responsible for.

Concerning the discussions of the new working period of the UN commission, the Cuban representative demanded to abandon stale and meaningless formulations sacrificing texts in the interests of increasingly fragile consensus.

Translated by Daysi Olano

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