Granma presents excerpts from the speech delivered by Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, closing the 8th Party Congress, April 19, 2021
Author: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúde | informacion@granmai.cu
june 3, 2021 09:06:45
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba rejects, in the strongest possible terms, the US State Department’s certification of Cuba as country that is not cooperating fully with the United States counterterrorism efforts, published by the Federal Register of that country on May 25, 2021.
His Excellency Mr. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
Excellencies, Heads of Delegations of the countries member of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council;
I extend my sincere thanks for the invitation conveyed by Kazakhstan, in its condition as President Pro Tempore of the Eurasian Economic Union, to participate in this important meeting, the first I have the honor to attend, after the approval of the Observer status for my country on December 11, 2020.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem and the indiscriminate bombings against the Palestinian people living in the Gaza Strip by Israel’s military forces, which have caused more than one hundred deadly casualties, the destruction of infrastructure and heavy economic damage.
Honorable Prime Minister Dr. The Rt. Keith Mitchell expressed on his Facebook account:
At the invitation of the Cuban Ambassador to Grenada, I recently joined her, along with a few of my Cabinet colleagues, some fellow Grenadians and Cuban nationals to celebrate 42nd anniversary of diplomatic relations between Grenada and Cuba.