Cuba has rejected remarks by United States President Donald Trump that the island’s communist government was under unprecedented pressure and would eventually fall.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez criticised the US President’s comments after Trump made the remarks during his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

Cuban delegates walked out of the assembly hall during Trump’s speech as he discussed his administration’s pressure on Havana.

Rodriguez, who is leading Cuba’s delegation to the UN General Assembly, said the United States was incapable of accepting Cuba’s right to remain a sovereign and independent country.

He described Trump’s statements as falsehoods and maintained that Cuba was a country of peace that deserved peace.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel also criticised Trump’s remarks, accusing the US administration of using what he described as a campaign of economic pressure against the Cuban people.

Diaz-Canel said Trump’s claims that Cuba represented a threat were an attempt to justify measures imposed on the country.

Trump told the UN General Assembly that Cuba’s communist government was under its greatest pressure and described the island as a failed state.

He said the Cuban government would fall and that his administration was seeking fundamental changes in the situation on the island.

The US President has also described Cuba as an extraordinary threat to US national security, citing its proximity to the United States.

Relations between Washington and Havana have deteriorated further under Trump, with his administration imposing additional economic restrictions and measures affecting Cuba’s access to energy supplies.

The Cuban government has repeatedly rejected US pressure and accused Washington of interfering in its internal affairs.