UN General Assembly
1967

It is also as well to remind the representatives here that, on the eighteenth of that month, I appeared on behalf of my Government before the Security Council to request it to consider "... the grave situation which now exists, with manifest danger to international peace and security, as a consequence of the repeated threats, harassments, intrigues, reprisals and aggressive acts…” to which Cuba was being subjected by the United States Government, and that the Security Council, acting on a proposal by the United States representative and despite my protest, referred consideration of the matter to the Organization of American States — that is, did the exact opposite of what is happening today. Hitherto the Yankee Government's consistent policy has been to refuse to discuss the "case of Cuba" in the United Nations. It has managed every time to get the item withdrawn from the United Nations and referred to the OAS, where it could count on all the recourses and resources it required. What has happened?