Havana, December 23, 2019.- The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, congratulated on Monday the workers and diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) and the Cuban people for the 60th anniversary of the creation of the agency.
"Congratulations to our worthy diplomats, the workers of #CubaMinrex and the Cuban people for building, doing, defending and exalting our foreign policy on the 60th anniversary of MINREX," the president wrote on the social network Twitter.
Previously, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez congratulated the workers of the sector and the people, whom he described as the main protagonist of revolutionary diplomacy.
He also asked to remain united in the defense of the Caribbean nation, which is currently facing the growing hostility of the United States government in its intention to destroy the Cuban Revolution.
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs was constituted on December 23, 1959 by Decree of the Revolutionary Government, to replace the Ministry of State, depending on the time of the first American occupation and designed to serve the interests of the United States government.
In an interview published Monday, Abelardo Moreno, current adviser to the Minrex, said the creation of the revolutionary institution transformed Cuban foreign policy by 180 degrees in a very short time.
With 19 years of experience in the diplomatic sphere of the Caribbean nation, he explained that 'not only did he institutionalize the fundamental changes that the Revolution made in foreign relations, but he totally broke with the diplomacy of the neocolonial republic. He buried the State Ministry.
On the chancellor of dignity, Moreno pointed out that Raúl Roa laid the foundations for the transformation of the former Ministry of State into a revolutionary, anti-imperialist, invincible body.
He added that the historical leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, was and is the creator of the current revolutionary diplomacy.
'The most important thing that the ministry has done for 60 years I will summarize in a few words: be unconditionally faithful to Fidel's ideas and the Revolution. Everything else derives from there, 'he said.
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