UNESCO: CALLS CONTINUE TO REMOVE CUBA FROM THE LIST OF COUNTRIES ALLEGED SPONSORS OF TERRORISM
Paris, July 22, 2024. The permanent delegations to UNESCO of Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela, together with Cuba, issued a Joint Statement demanding the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries supposedly sponsoring terrorism.
In the document, widely circulated at this headquarters, the said delegations reaffirm paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Declaration of the XXIII Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) held in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 24, 2024, the text of which was also distributed attached to the Communiqué.
In that sense, the Statement denounces the negative consequences of Cuba's permanence on the list and calls on the US government to exclude the country from it and lift the blockade.
Below is the full text of the Communiqué issued:
JOINT STATEMENT
“DEMAND FOR THE EXCLUSION OF CUBA FROM THE LIST OF COUNTRIES ALLEGEDLY SPONSORING TERRORISM
“The delegations of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Nicaragua and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela accredited to UNESCO demand the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism, which has a negative impact on all areas of Cuban society and on the welfare of its people by intensifying the country's difficulties to enter international trade, carry out financial operations and procure basic supplies.
“The U.S. government should listen to the demands of the international community and its own public opinion to lift the blockade and exclude Cuba from the arbitrary, selective and unilateral list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, which results in other measures of economic coercion that severely harm the well-being of the entire Cuban population.
“In that sense, we reaffirm the Declaration of the XXIII Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) held in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 24 of 2024, which is attached, in particular its paragraphs 8 and 9”.