Brussels, Jun 7 (Prensa Latina) MEPs and political forces such as the Party of the European Left today rejected a new maneuver against Cuba organized by the right in the Parliament, a position before which they reiterated their solidarity with the island.
According to the Belgian Marc Botenga, if the MEPs promoting an initiative introduced to discuss human rights in Cuba tomorrow were really interested in the subject, they would be concerned with analyzing the impact on the inhabitants of the Caribbean country of the illegal blockade that is against them. the United States imposes.
In the social network Facebook, the member of the European Parliament affirmed that the economic, commercial and financial siege applied by Washington represents a violation of human rights and recalled the condemnation at the UN of this policy that suffocates the island.
Botenga commented that what bothers Cuba are its successes in education and health, its solidarity in times of Covid-19 and the development of its own vaccines to face the pandemic, despite the US blockade and its consequences.
Instead of blindly following the United States, the European Parliament should respect and develop the political dialogue and cooperation agreement between Cuba and the European Union (EU), he stressed.
Also the Spanish MEP Manu Pineda criticized the promoters of the debate, mainly members of the Spanish right, in their attempt to accuse the Antillean nation on human rights.
'There is no red line that the Popular Party, Citizens and Vox are not willing to cross in their attacks against Cuba. Each of these actions, in addition to being useless in practice, further sink the already diminished credibility of the European Parliament, 'he wrote on Twitter.
In the social network itself, the Greek parliamentarian Kostas Arvanitis joined the questions and defended the agreement reached by the island and the EU based on equality and mutual respect, a pact that anti-Cuban MEPs want to block.
In addition to the position set by the three members of the GUE / NGL (Left) Group in the European Parliament, the Party of the European Left repudiated the maneuver on Monday, which it framed in the purpose of 'wearing down relations between the EU and Cuba' .
The island is free and there it is its people who decide, therefore this debate violates its sovereignty, warned the organization founded in 2004, which welcomes European communist and socialist parties.
The Party urged the European Parliament to reject the point on Cuba, which it described as one more maneuver of the extreme right, and advocated the denouncement from the EU of the 'inhuman blockade that the Cuban people have suffered for 62 years, which has been increased during the pandemic to extremes that clearly violate human rights. '
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