Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the UN Security Council.

Statement by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla at the Security Council open debate on “Defending the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System,” in New York on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, Cubaminrex.

Cuban foreign minister meets UN Secretary-General.

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs, was received at the UN on Tuesday by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, during his visit to New York to participate in the Security Council session. There, he requested the multilateral organization’s contribution to halting a US military aggression against Cuba and to ending threats of the use of force.

Cuba is not a threat to the United States. It never was and it never will be.

The assertion by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that Cuba represents a threat to his country's national security is nothing more than a smokescreen, a crude propaganda maneuver intended to justify the unjustifiable: the current administration's renewed interventionist zeal against a small nation, blockaded and harassed for almost seven decades.

Members of the European Parliament expressed their rejection of the United States' hostilities against Cuba, condemning the blockade and military threats.Members of the European Parliament expressed their rejection of the United States' hostilities against Cuba, condemning the blockade and military threats.

The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, rejected this Sunday the maximum pressure strategy executed by the United States and expressed his gratitude for the backing of European lawmakers who classified the energy siege as an unjustifiable collective punishment.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with his counterpart from the Ministry of the Interior.

Following a request from the U.S. government to receive a delegation in Havana headed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the Revolutionary Government approved the visit and the meeting with its counterpart from the Ministry of the Interior.