Vientiane March, 2024. In a communiqué from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, it is reported that the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States, Benjamin Ziff, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Deputy Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who formally conveyed to him the firm rejection of the interventionist conduct and the slanderous messages of the U.S. government and its embassy in Cuba regarding internal matters of the Cuban reality.
With the delivery of a formal note of protest, the U.S. diplomat was reminded of the minimum standards of decency and honesty expected of a diplomatic mission in any country and that the U.S. embassy in Cuba is unable to observe, while emphasizing that the diplomatic office and its staff are obliged to behave in accordance with the rules of the Vienna Convention on Foreign Relations. Diplomatic.
At the meeting, attention was also drawn to the direct responsibility of the government of the United States in the face of the difficult economic situation that Cuba is going through at this time and, specifically, in the face of the shortages and difficulties that the population faces on a daily basis, with depression and insufficiency of supplies and essential services. under the weight and impact of the economic blockade designed to destroy the country's economic capacity.
The ostensible efforts of the United States government to limit and hinder every effort by the Cuban State to find solutions and respond to the country's economic and social needs were repudiated.
The destabilizing plan and its implementation are obvious for all to see. It rests on the reinforcement of a ruthless economic war to provoke and exploit the natural irritation of the population. It is funded each year by tens of millions of dollars from the U.S. federal budget. It has a powerful technological infrastructure to exploit digital networks from U.S. territory and for aggressive purposes. It enjoys the complicity of important media outlets in the United States and the international press, and the mercenary support of people based mainly in the south of the State of Florida in the United States, whose only way of life is the industry of aggression against Cuba.
If the United States government had a minimal and honest concern about the well-being of the Cuban population, it would remove Cuba from the arbitrary list of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism; put an end to the persecution of fuel supplies that the country needs to import; it would stop pursuing every financial transaction of Cuba in the world; it would put an end to the crude persecution of Cuba's medical cooperation programs in the world; It would stop intimidating businessmen, visitors, artists and anyone who feels they have the interest and the right to interact with the Cuban people.
Embassy of Cuba