Due to its strategic position, Cuba can facilitate BRICS access to important markets in LAC and establish key partnerships for the benefit of our countries
For Cuba, it is an extraordinary honor to participate in this Meeting of Leaders of Member States in the expanded BRICS format, which is successfully taking place in the multicultural and hospitable city of Kazan. For more than 60 years, Cuba has had to face a fierce blockade imposed by successive US governments, which has also been intensified in an extreme, unprecedented and cruel manner since 2019, even during the COVID pandemic, and aggravated by the infamous and unfounded inclusion of our country in the spurious list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism, which has a very negative impact on the quality of life of all Cubans and causes severe humanitarian damage, shortages and suffering. The dignified, victorious and creative resistance of the Cuban people has received the encouragement and support of many of the countries gathered in this room, and the backing of the international community, a gesture that we deeply appreciate.
