Havana, Cuba.-The United Nations System of the United Nations (UN) in Cuba today expressed its solidarity with the people affected after the effects of Hurricane Matthew and announced that it puts their skills, experiences and resourcesat the service of the affected people in Cuba.

According to a press note released here, the UN maintained surveillance on the hurricane and, in coordination with the Cuban institutions, prepares an immediate response with supplies, foods and items for the early recovery phase.

At the same time, it confirmed its admiration for the strategies adopted in the Caribbean nation before the effects of the hurricane, a bosy with the Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of a maximum of five, which allowed to avoid the loss of human lives and reduce damage.

The United Nations System in Cuba emphasizes that such measures constitute an example of how to apply the principles of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, among which goals is the reduction of the number of people affected and the global disaster mortality, added the text.

According to the note, the UN and agencies that compose it, foresee the possibility of strengthening existing projects in the worst hit provinces within the framework of assistance of the United Nations for development (UNDAF), signed with Cuban institutions for the period 2014-2018.

In the province of Guantánamo, the most harmed by Matthew, already four projects are performed under UNDAF in population dynamics and quality, development and sustainability of social and cultural services.

It also runs one in sustainable economic development, seven in food and nutritional security, and eight in environmental sustainability and disaster risk management; While in the province of Holguín other 45 are in those same areas.

Images published in social networks and several press media, reflected partial and total landslides, collapse of houses, coast floods and other damages.

At the same time, radio ham operators alert on many damages to the national and regional agriculture and other sectors.