The Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the attack on Cuban embassy in Washington, USA. An unidentified individual shot at the embassy using an assault rifle. None of the diplomats were injured due to the presence of Cuban security arrangements.
Vienna Convention mandates that protection of diplomatic missions is the responsibility of the host country, here the US. The US has failed in providing security to Cuban embassy. The US government authorities have till now neither contacted the Cuban embassy nor issue any official statement condemning the incident.
The policy pronouncements and hostile rhetoric voiced by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump have resulted in such an attack.
The attack on the embassy comes at a time when socialist Cuba is leading from the front in the present fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Cuban medical teams are at present serving in 59 countries, spread across Europe, Latin America and African continents. The role of US in encouraging attacks even on such medical personnel, as in Bolivia, is also documented.
The CPI(M) demands the US government to respect the various resolutions passed by the UN condemning the inhuman economic blockade against Cuba. The economic blockade has to be immediately withdrawn and all restrictions imposed have to be rescinded.
The US government should initiate measures to purge all individuals and groups who use it as a base to launch attacks on Cuba.
The CPI(M) reiterates its solidarity with socialist Cuba and the glorious people of Cuba who are nobly serving people of the world during the present pandemic.
Central Committee Communist Party of India (Marxist)
02.05.2020