STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Cuba counters human trafficking operations aimed for military recruitment
purposes.
The Ministry of the Interior has detected and it is working to neutralize and
dismantle a human trafficking network that operates from Russia in order to
incorporate Cuban citizens living there and even some living in Cuba, into the
military forces that participate in military operations in Ukraine. Attempts of this
nature have been neutralized and criminal proceedings have been initiated
against those involved in these activities.
Cuba’s enemies are promoting distorted information that seeks to tarnish the
country’s image and present it as an accomplice to these actactions that we
firmly reject.
Cuba has a firm and clear historical position against mercenarism, and it plays
an active role in the United Nations in rejection of the aforementioned practice,
being the author of several of the initiatives approved in that forum.
Cuba is not part of the war in Ukraine. It is acting and it will firmly act against
those who within the national territory participate in any form of human
trafficking for mercenarism or recruitment purposes so that Cuban citizens may
raise weapons against any country.
Havana, September 4 th , 2023