Cuba urged the UN Security Council on Tuesday to play its role and adopt practical measures so that Israel puts an end to policies that violate international law.
Cuba also demanded the end of manipulation in the Security Council to serve the interests of some powers that enjoy the obsolete veto privilege, as happened with the imposition and reinterpretation of resolutions 1970 and 1973 (Libya).
Cuba stand was expressed by permanent representative to the UN Pedro Nunez Mosquera in an open debate of the Security Council about the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue.
The Cuban diplomat reiterated his country support to the application for entry of the Palestinian State as a full fledged member of the United Nations, and denounced powerful interests opposed to its admission.
Those are the same countries which withdrew their support to UNESCO for accepting, in an elementary act of justice, the full fledged membership of Palestine in that UN organ, he said.
He said that contacts between Israelis and Palestinians promoted by the Middle East Quartet have not brought a reduction of provocations or any concrete proposal about border demarcation and security mechanisms in the region.
The negotiation process interrupted by Israel intransigence and its decision to continue building Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories should be resumed, said the Cuban ambassador.