Addis Ababa, July 26, 2024.- (Prensa Latina) The Association of Friendship between the Peoples of Ethiopia and Cuba today reiterated the call to remove Cuba from the arbitrary United States list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
The president of the association, Abebe Ayalew, speaking at the event for the 71st anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada (Santiago de Cuba) and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Bayamo) barracks at the Havana embassy in Addis Ababa, said that the inclusion in the spurious relationship is absolutely unjustified and unacceptable.
Days before leaving office in January 2021, then-President Donald Trump redesignated Cuba on his list of sponsors of terrorism, from which it had been excluded in 2015 during the administration of Barack Obama.
Trump added to his policy of maximum pressure a coercive measure that he left as a legacy to his Democratic successor, still unable to lift it.
On the anniversary remembered on this day, he assured that he also belongs to the almost five thousand Ethiopians who studied on the Caribbean island because it is the basis of the Cuban Revolution and the essence of their training.
"That is why we enshrine the belief that this country, our second homeland, has been an example for the world in terms of solidarity. You cannot mention a single epidemiological event in which the Cuban presence has not been noticed," he said. He recalled that when the rest of the nations succumbed to the impact of an unknown disease such as Covid-19, Cuba created its own vaccine candidates and opened up to cooperation with the rest of the countries to help combat it.
As a friendship association founded in 1978, he revealed that their objectives are to strengthen relations between the two peoples, transmit the history from generation to generation and the ambition to build a hospital in Addis Ababa where Cuban and Ethiopian doctors work, in addition to teaching improvement courses in various specialties.
Likewise, facilitate the exchange of knowledge and technologies, he added.
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Elio Rodriguez presided over the ceremony in which members of the diplomatic headquarters and the Caribbean state mission, nationals residing in the African country, the Nicaraguan chargé d'affaires in Addis Ababa, Ali Waters, as well as members of the Venezuelan embassy participated.
(Prensa Latina)