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Mr. PEDRO LUIS PEDROSO CUESTA (Cuba) said that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development remains the road map for fair socioeconomic development for all States.  The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of achieving the 2030 Agenda on time.  Noting that the pandemic worsened the challenges facing States, he stressed the need for financing for development, official development assistance (ODA), technology transfer and national capacity-building.  Concurring with the Secretary-General on the importance of promoting human rights, he emphasized the need to approach the right to development with the same force the international community applies to other rights.  Coercive measures undermine people’s well-being, multiplying difficulties they have been already facing.  Sovereignty, self-determination and non-interference in domestic affairs are the premises of the United Nations.  The economic embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba is a flagrant violation of his people’s human rights and an impediment to sustainable development, he said, calling for action by the General Assembly to defend multilateralism.

TOFIG MUSAYEV (Azerbaijan) said global solidarity, multilateralism and common efforts, with the United Nations at the core, are the most effective means to achieve sustainable development and human rights.  He looked forward to consultations on Our Common Agenda and outcomes based on unity and solidarity.  He agreed on the need to confront vaccine nationalism, noting that Azerbaijan has mobilized resources to ensure equitable vaccine access for all countries.  He called for greater investments to reach shared goals, noting more broadly that the nature of sustaining peace calls for closer strategic and operational partnership between the United Nations, Governments and others, respecting national sovereignty and taking State priorities into account.  Noting that part of Azerbaijan’s territory was seized in the 1990s and remained under unlawful occupation for nearly 30 years, he said that following the failure of international mediation efforts, his country liberated its territories in 2020, resolving the conflict.  It prioritized the reinforcement of its borders, reconstructing liberated territories and restoring housing, essential services and transportation and communication infrastructure, to ensure the safe return of the displaced population.  He said support to States affected by conflict and engaged in post-conflict peacebuilding must remain a critical United Nations commitment, with humanitarian actors working in an exclusively humanitarian nature, respecting States’ sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity.  The United Nations also must continue to counter racism, hate speech and mis- and disinformation, he added.

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I'm always doing throwbacks!!! Sorry!! A few of the legal committee at the Delegate Ball!!! #LIMUN #LIMUNLegal2017 #bestcommitte #delagates #delegateball #february #coventgarden #delegateball (at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms)

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