Lahore, August 28, 2024 _ Cuba yes, blockade no! was the unanimous demand of several dozen students, intellectuals, trade unionists and social activists of Lahore who attended an exchange session on Cuba with Ambassador Zéner Caro and university professor Dr. Taimur Rahman at the theater of the South Asian Free Media Association of the Pakistani cultural capital.
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
On May 28, the Government of the United States finally announced a group of measures aimed at implementing the policy announced on May 16, 2022. The purpose of this step, according to the text published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), is to support the private sector in Cuba.
Islamabad, May 25, 2024. The Collective for Solidarity with Cuba, a young Pakistani organization of friendship with our country, issued today a statement demanding that the island be excluded from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
According to U.S. official media reports, on 15 May 2024, the country’s State Secretary submitted to the Congress one more of the arbitrary reports that normally describe countries without any international mandate or recorgnition. This time, he listed four countries who allegedly “do not fully cooperate with the United States antiterrorist efforts for the 2023 calendar year.” As opposed to what has happened in recent years, the list does not slanderously include Cuba among such countries.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated the will to advance in its economic and social development, despite the intensification of the U.S. blockade that attempts to subvert the revolutionary process.
In an interview with Spanish journalist and writer Ignacio Ramonet, published today in the Granma newspaper (the newspaper with the largest circulation), the Cuban leader affirmed that in the face of these aggressions, the country has not remained idle and is developing its capacity to resist.