The thesis that Cuba is isolated from the international community is completely false, as demonstrated in the recent high-level debate of the UN General Assembly, they highlighted here today.
This was indicated by the specialist of the Directorate of Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) of Havana, Mirthia Brossard, who referred to the support that the island had from numerous heads of State and Government who participated in the largest United Nations event, just concluded this week.
In the framework of the general debate at the UN, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez maintained a broad multilateral agenda, met with counterparts from several countries and also with American religious leaders and Cuban residents in the northern nation, he recalled on the television program Round Table .
Cuba came to the forum with important achievements, such as its own vaccines against Covid-19 and the international collaboration it provides to combat the pandemic, stressed Brossard.
For his part, the specialist of the Ministry of Multilateral Affairs of the Minrex, Diosdado de Jesús Hernández, stressed how the rejection of the United States blockade against Cuba was a mobilizing cause in the general debate.
Many countries from different regions of the world spoke out against the US siege against the largest of the Antilles and this shows the great interest of the international community in the matter, he pointed out.
There were also positions against the inclusion of Cuba in Washington's unilateral list of states supposedly promoting terrorism, he added.
Another frequent theme in the interventions of several dignitaries was the recognition of the cooperation of Cuban health professionals, despite the difficulties caused by the US siege and sanctions, she explained.
Likewise, he explained, in the high-level debate of the UN General Assembly at its 76th session, the extraterritorial nature of the blockade was rejected and how this policy damages the sovereignty of other nations.
We saw in the general debate a Caribbean that is increasingly united and committed to the Cuban cause, Hernández said. Senior dignitaries from Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Bahamas, Grenada, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Guyana and Belize called for the end of the blockade.
From Oceania, Tuvalu and the Solomon Islands did it, and from Latin America, leaders of Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico, Nicaragua and Bolivia agreed in their rejection of the unilateral mechanism.
African representatives also joined the claim, such as those from Burkina Faso, Namibia, Chad, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho, Gambia, Benin, Republic of the Congo, and Guinea. Vietnam, Laos, Timor Leste and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea also called for an end to the US encirclement, as did Russia, Belarus and Syria.
(Cubaminrex-PL)