Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically rejects the entry into Guantánamo Bay on 5 July 2023 of a nuclear-powered submarine that remained until 8 July at the US military base located there, which constitutes a provocative escalation by the United States, whose political or strategic motives are unknown.
The III Summit of Heads of State and Government CELAC - European Union will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 17 and 18 July.
The leaders of both regions will meet again after eight years of not doing so, in a very complicated international context.
The reality is that, beyond speeches and declarations, no progress has been made in bi-regional ties and, in the last period, they have even regressed.
The Summit could be an opportunity to begin to change this scenario. But there are reasons for concern.
The Jamaica Cuba Friendship Association joins with the majority of humanity's citizen in the strongest condemnation of the illegal, cruel and inhumane 60 year old commercial, economic and financial blockade of our sister country by the government of the United States of America and call for its unconditional removal.
In the framework of the 45th anniversary of the historic dialogue of 1978 between our Commander in Chief and a representative group of emigrants, as well as the 170th anniversary of the birth of José Martí, we gather precisely in the place where the Apostle arrived on his way to Caracas to pay homage to the Liberator, the lighthouse and guide, together with Chávez, of the Bolivarian Revolution:
WE DECLARE
Kingston, 16 June 2023. Around thirty members of the Cuban State Mission in Jamaica carried out this week a massive blood donation throughout the Jamaican territory, in the framework of World Blood Donor Day, which is commemorated on June 14.
In the Jamaican capital, the donations given to the Alexander Bustamante Paediatric Hospital will contribute to surgical operations at the institution's Cardio-centre.