Cuba rates an act of the US diplomatic mission at the UN as a "deceptive spectacle".

The Government of Cuba called an act carried out this Monday by the United States representative to the UN, Mike Waltz, in a room of the Organization in New York, with the presence of Cuban dissidents and former political prisoners of the island, a "deceitful spectacle." "In a deceitful spectacle, faithful to its image and likeness, the US ambassador to the UN attacked Cuba in the premises of the UN," stated the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, on the social network X. The Cuban Foreign Minister said that "without adherence to any of the agenda or topics of interest to the Member States and without respect for the rules of the Organization's conferences, Mr. Waltz paraded, in a clandestine room and before a few people, a selection of people who have spent years living off the federal budget of the US government with anti-Cuban conduct." "Nothing of what occurred there is supported by UN resolutions, has international support, or agrees with the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the Organization," he added. The meeting called by the US diplomatic mission to the UN, under the title 'Free Cuba: the oppression that hides Havana,' brought together Cuban opponents such as the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and the political exile José Daniel Ferrer, and it took place a week before the UN General Assembly votes on the annual resolution on the Washington embargo against the island. The head of Cuban diplomacy also criticized in a post on social networks the presence at the meeting organized by Ambassador Waltz of "a known terrorist and swindler: Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat." Rodríguez pointed out that "this person is included in the national list of persons and entities linked to terrorism compiled by the Cuban government in compliance with the mandates of the Security Council." He also affirmed that the Cuban opponent Gutiérrez Boronat "is accused in Miami of appropriating millions of dollars from the US federal budget, intended for subversive policy against Cuba, which pays the taxpayer of that country." Previously, the Cuban ambassador Ernesto Soberón denounced this Monday at the UN the US event as "a political maneuver" that seeks to weaken international support for his country's annual resolution against the US embargo. The General Assembly approves resolutions of this type since 1992 at the request of Cuba, although its decisions are not legally binding. The economic, commercial, and financial embargo of Washington formally entered into force on February 3, 1962, when then President John F. Kennedy signed the executive order that established it.