HAVANA, February 14, 2026 (WAFA) – A delegation from the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, chaired by the Senegalese Ambassador, President of the Committee, visited the Republic of Cuba as part of the Committee’s international efforts to support the Palestinian people and mobilize global backing, marking the 50th anniversary of the Committee’s establishment.
The delegation included representatives from several countries holding positions as members of the Committee’s Bureau, namely: Namibia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Neville Melvin Gertze; Nicaragua’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the UN, Jaime Hermida Castillo; Cuba’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the UN, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán; and the Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the UN, Ambassador Riyad Mansour; in addition to representatives from the UN Secretariat’s Division for Palestinian Rights.
During the visit, the delegation held a meeting in Havana with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, in the presence of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and other Cuban officials, at the Palace of the Revolution, with the participation of the Palestinian Ambassador to Cuba, Ammar Zorba.
The meeting addressed international efforts to maintain the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, support reconstruction, halt the Israeli occupation government’s colonial settlement policies in the West Bank, and put a stop to its actions undermining the two-state solution, as well as ways to implement the New York Declaration on the two-state solution.
The delegation expressed its deep appreciation for Cuba’s steadfast support for the Palestinian people’s rights and its active contribution to enhancing UN efforts to achieve justice and peace.
President Díaz reaffirmed Cuba’s commitment to supporting the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and continuing cooperation with the Committee and the UN to achieve a just and comprehensive solution, end the occupation, and establish an independent Palestinian state along the June 4, 1967 borders.
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