Cuba expressed here that free determination is the most important right that Cubans enjoy despite hostility and the blockade imposed by the United States.

This statement was made by permanent ambassador to the UN, Pedro Nunez Mosquera, in the Third Commission of the General Assembly that debates promotion and protection of human rights and application of international mechanisms in this field.

He also pointed out that the most important right has been assured for the Cuban people that is the full exercise of their right to free determination, confronting obstacles and threats of hostility and blockade of successive US administrations.

He added that Cuban achievements in healthcare, education, science and technology, culture and sports are possible because "we own our own political destiny and resources of the country through participative democracy that the people themselves designed and voted for in a universal referendum."

He added that today more than 50,000 health, sports and education professionals offer services to 99 countries and four territories across the seas.

Nunez Mosquera also repeated the permanent will of Cuba to hold frank and open talks on subjects of human rights and listed the many protocols signed in this field.

We have always defended the noble causes of the people and the importance of granting priority to economic, social and cultural rights that are equal to civilian and political rights, he pointed out.

He also ratified the commitment of his country to cooperate with universal, non discriminatory, non selective and non politicized mechanisms in the subject of human rights.

We hope that the previous scenario of sanctions against countries of the south with automatic impunity granted by countries of the south is not repeated in the current system of UN human rights, he concluded.