Wellington, April 30. On the occasion of a trip to the South Island to attend the commemoration of International Labor Day in Blackball, Ambassador Edgardo Valdés was invited to participate in an act of support for Cuba and rejection of the US blockade, on the deck of the ferry, organized by the Maritime Union of New Zealand.
This union approved a motion to support Cuba in its last National Assembly and has a long tradition of solidarity with the island.
Auckland, April 17. Commemorating the victory of the Cubans over the armed invasion of Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) and the beginning of the 8th Congress of the Communist Party, friends summoned by the Auckland/Cuba Friendship Society, demanded before the US Consulate the end of the aggressive policy of that country against the island.
Namibia, April 15th, 2021- The President of Namibia, H.E. Dr. Hage Geingob, called on the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States Government against Cuba, in the annual State of the Nation Address, delivered at the headquarters of the Namibian Parliament, in Windhoek, capital of the country.
Auckland, April 8. The Cuban Ambassador attended a meeting with 20 leaders of the First Union, other Unions, and members of the board of solidarity groups with Cuba.
At the meeting, a recorded message of thanks was transmitted from Leima Martínez, Director of Asia / Pacific of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), and the Ambassador made a presentation on the situation in Cuba, the perspectives of relations with the United States, the good state of ties with New Zealand and the upcoming debate on the blockade in the United Nations General Assembly.
Wellington, March 5. During the week it was learned that the Auckland Cuba Friendship Society group demanded in an open letter to President Joe Biden the exclusion of Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Addis Abeba, February 7, 2021. For the twelfth consecutive time, the Assembly of the African Union, made up of the Heads of State and Government of Africa, approved the “Resolution on the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the Republic of Cuba for the United States of America ”.
The text expresses deep concern about the continuity of the blockade and expresses its full support for the Resolution that the UN General Assembly passes each year on the subject.
Monrovia, January 15, 2021.- Responding to an invitation made by Cuban Chief of Mission Mercedes L. Martinez Herrera last year, we received in our diplomatic headquarters the visit of the Dean of the African Methodist Episcopal University Professor Augustine Konneh.
In the meeting, which took place in a cordial and fraternal atmosphere, the interest in establishing links between the Liberian University and Cuban Universities as a way of strengthening the bilateral bonds between both countries was evidenced.
Havana, January 6. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla recognized the support of the international community in favor of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States government against the Caribbean island.
He stated that during 2020, 159 States and 34 international organizations sent messages of support to the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, for resolution 74/7 entitled “The necessity to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba”.
Wellington, November 11. Cuban Ambassador Edgardo Valdés was invited as a speaker at the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Maritime Union, in which he thanked the solidarity that this union has always given to Cuba.
The delegates to the Conference approved a declaration condemning the blockade and ratified their support for the Cuban people and their Revolution.
Wellington, November 5. Cuban FM Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla extended its cordial congratulations to the FM of New Zealand, H.E Nanaia Mahuta for her appointment, and expressed its willingness to "continue expanding the ties of friendship and cooperation between our countries."
Cuba and New Zealand share broad coincidences on many issues on the international agenda and the New Zealand government supports General Assembly resolution 74/7 against the blockade.
