US complicity with violent acts against Cuba is strongly rejected
The US judicial authorities have decided to release Alexander Alazo, the individual who, on April 30, 2020, stood in the middle of the street and shot 32 rounds with a machine gun against the Cuban embassy in that country, at the moment when 7 persons stayed inside the building. This action, perpetrated on a central avenue of Washington D.C., the US capital, against a diplomatic mission, with the stated purpose of causing damage, would qualify as a terrorist act in any country of the world. But that is not the case in the United States, much less when this is about a violent action against Cuba. The government of that country has all the while refused to recognize this act for what it is. At any one time did it have the intention to prosecute the perpetrator as a terrorist, despite the fact that the nature of his actions is explicitly typified in the US legislation against that scourge.
Ambassador Receives President of Estonia-Cuba Friendship Association
The Ambassador of Cuba, Beatriz Parra González, received the President of the Estonia-Cuba Association, Mrs. Piret Poldsar. During the meeting, both parts discussed issues of the historical relations of the Association with the Greater Antilles, which dates back three decades. The Cuban diplomat discussed with Poldsar information about the complex economic situation that her country is facing due to the effect of the blockade measures imposed by the United States against the Island and thanked Estonia`s friends for its support.
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.
Israeli Aggression in the Middle East Must Stop
Cuba, while expressing its solidarity with the nations targeted by Israel, calls for peace and urges immediate negotiations toward a ceasefire to prevent a further escalation of a conflict that has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and severely worsened the humanitarian crisis to alarming levels in the region's populations. We reaffirm our commitment to justice and international law. We reiterate that peace in the Middle East can only be achieved through a comprehensive, lasting, and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the establishment of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. In addition, the full and immediate admission of Palestine as a member of the United Nations must be guaranteed without further delay.
Cuba will continue to defend its sovereign right to build socialism the way we Cubans have decided, without any foreign interference
I dedicate these first words to ratify Cuba’s solidarity and support to the brotherly people of Palestine, victim of more than 75 years of colonial occupation, flagrant violations to their legitimate rights as a nation, submitted to cruelty, aggressions, collective punishments and apartheid. It is an unacceptable tragedy, plain for all to see; it’s a wound in human consciousness. During the last eleven months, the Israeli army has massacred more than 40 thousand civilians. That indiscriminate and disproportionate massacre has killed more boys and girls than men and women. They die with the complicity and the weapons contributed by the United States, with the complicit silence of others. We pay tribute to the more than 220 aid workers of this Organization who have also been killed.