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STORY: UN / CUBA GRID COLLAPSE ACTION PLAN
TRT: 03:20
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 APRIL 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
06 APRIL 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisco Pichon, Resident Coordinator in Cuba, United Nations:
“The UN system together with the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, and also in very close dialogue with the national authorities, just ten days ago, launched a restructured action plan in response to the ongoing energy contingency and the remaining impacts of Hurricane Melissa.”
4. Wide shot, press room dais
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisco Pichon, Resident Coordinator in Cuba, United Nations:
“The energy crisis is having rather systemic and multiplying humanitarian impact, affecting all aspects of daily life in Cuba, health, water and sanitation, food systems, education, transportation, telecommunications. And the country has gone for more than three months without sufficient fuel and the humanitarian consequences, as you might expect, continue to deepen every day.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisco Pichon, Resident Coordinator in Cuba, United Nations:
“The UN is actively working with partners and member states to identify solutions that guarantee the viability of our operations. And at the same time, I should say, we are exploring with other actors who can contribute logistical solutions, including fuel. And we are doing this with the private sector in Cuba.”
8. Wide shot, press room dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisco Pichon, Resident Coordinator in Cuba, United Nations:
“The plan is designed to complement the national response. It is focussed on traceable and equitable use of limited fuel resources, which we adapt to the specificities of each focussed sector. And these sectors are, logistic -which includes a working group on energy - health, water and sanitation, food security, shelter, and protection of vulnerable, populations and education.”
10. Wide shot, press room dais
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Francisco Pichon, Resident Coordinator in Cuba, United Nations:
“There are ongoing dialogues between the UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in New York, with representatives of the US Mission in the at the UN, and with support of some member states to try to secure concordance to be able to bring fuel to Cuba to support our humanitarian response and ensure that we can safeguard essential services.”
12. Wide shot, end of briefing
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Cuba, Francisco Pichon, today (6 Apr) told journalists in New York that the country “has gone for more than three months without sufficient fuel” and the humanitarian consequences “continue to deepen every day.”
Briefing remotely from Havana, Pichon noted that ten days ago, the UN system together with the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and in close dialogue with national authorities, launched “a restructured action plan in response to the ongoing energy contingency and the remaining impacts of Hurricane Melissa.”
He said the energy crisis “is having rather systemic and multiplying humanitarian impact, affecting all aspects of daily life in Cuba, health, water and sanitation, food systems, education, transportation, telecommunications.”
Pichon said, “the energy crisis is having rather systemic and multiplying humanitarian impact, affecting all aspects of daily life in Cuba,” including health, water and sanitation, food systems, education, transportation, and telecommunications.
The UN, he said, “is actively working with partners and member states to identify solutions” to guarantee the viability of its operations,” as well as “exploring with other actors who can contribute logistical solutions, including fuel. And we are doing this with the private sector in Cuba.”
The humanitarian official said the action plan “is designed to complement the national response” and is focussed “on traceable and equitable use of limited fuel resources, which we adapt to the specificities of each focussed sector,” including logistic, health, water and sanitation, food security, shelter, and protection of vulnerable, populations and education.
Pichon said there are “ongoing dialogues” between the OCHA and the US, “with support of some member states to try to secure concordance to be able to bring fuel to Cuba to support our humanitarian response and ensure that we can safeguard essential services.”
On January 29, 2026, the United States Government issued an Executive Order further restricting the supply of oil or fuel from third countries to Cuba.
