Kingston, Jamaica, 18 April 2019. Heather Cooke, Clerk for both Houses of Parliament of Jamaica, was received today at the headquarters of the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba by the Ambassador of that country to Jamaica, H.E. Mrs. Inés Fors Fernández.
In a cordial atmosphere, the Cuban diplomat thanked the Jamaican Parliament for its support for the struggle of the Cuban people to lift the unjust and criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba. Mrs. Fors Fernández emphasized the recent decision of the US Executive Branch to lift all existing restrictions on the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton law, whose extraterritorial scope violates the sovereignty of third countries interested in doing legitimate business with Cuba. This action, said the Cuban Ambassador, constitutes a new way to hinder the economic development of the Greater Island of the Antilles.
The most recent motion to condemn the US blockade against Cuba, by the Jamaican Parliament, was approved unanimously and for the tenth consecutive year last November.
During the meeting, both officials evaluated the state of relations between the parliaments of both countries as positive. They recalled the meeting held last January between the President of the House of Representatives of Jamaica, Honourable Pearnel Charles, and the President of the Cuban National Assembly of the People’s Power, Mr. Esteban Lazo, in Havana, and agreed on the convenience of reactivating the work of the respective Parliamentary Friendship Groups.