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UN Secretary-General Praises Cuba’s Social Development.
CUBA, September 24, 2010.- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that Cuba’s advances towards the fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are impressive.
The UN official met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, who participated in the UN MDG that concluded on Wednesday in New York.
According to an official note on the meeting released by the United Nations, referring to the MDGs, established in 2000 to be fulfilled by 2015, both sides agreed on the need to strengthen the political will of all governments to meet these goals.
During the meeting, Ban Ki-moon praised the island’s impressive social advances and its assistance to Haiti particularly after the devastation caused by last January’s earthquake.
The note adds that Rodriguez Parrilla and Ban Ki-moon also spoke about climate change and topics of a humanitarian nature.
The Cuban diplomat addressed the UN summit on Tuesday, when he called for the creation of a new world political and economic order based on the principles of solidarity, social justice, equity and respect for the rights of all countries and individual human beings.
Rodriguez Parrilla added that the goals included in the Declaration of the Millennium have almost been completely fulfilled in Cuba and some of them have even been surpassed.
He said, “Our commitment goes beyond the borders of our country and it has allowed us to contribute to the social development of other Third World nations.
This is the result of a Revolution that has given priority to the people’s well-being in an environment of equity and social justice. It is the result of the society that we are building, based on solidarity.
It is, in addition, a feat attained in spite of an economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States on the Cuban people for more than 50 years.” (Cubaminrex-RHC)