UN General Assembly
1964

117. As is well known, after the tremendous flurry of the so-called "Caribbean crisis", the United States reached with the Soviet Union certain agreements culminating in the withdrawal of a certain type of armament which continued acts of aggression by the United States — such as the mercenary attack at Playa Girón and the threats to invade our country — had compelled us to install in Cuba, in implementation of our inalienable right of self-defence. The United States also claimed that the United Nations should inspect our territory—a claim which we emphatically rejected, since Cuba does not recognize the right of the United States, or of any one else in the world, to determine what weapons Cuba should possess within its frontiers.