Mr. Jorge Arreaza, Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs.
The delegation of Cuba welcomes you to this Extraordinary Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement.
We believe it is very timely and convenient that Venezuela, in the person of its Foreign Minister, should come to this forum, which he also presides over, to provide us with updated information on the most recent events taking place against the sister nation of Venezuela, its constitutional and legitimate President, Nicolás Maduro Moros, and the Civic-Military Union of his people.
We are living in a time when the so-called "fake news" proliferate and reproduce at an accelerated speed. The machinery of fabrication of lies is today attacking Venezuela, trying to confuse the peoples, and international public opinion with the objective of changing the government democratically elected by the Venezuelans. Those are the same defamatory campaigns that Cuba knew from the first years of the Triumph of our Revolution and in fact is still suffering from. That is why we appreciate your presence here today.
There is no other alternative but to work from our Movement so that the truth pushes its way to the fore and the international community does not allow itself to be carried away by the information produced against our countries by those that proclaim themselves to be the champions of information.
There is no doubt that Latin America and the Caribbean are the current scenario of persistent threats, inconsistent with the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace signed by the Heads of State and Government at the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, in January 2014.
The current U.S. administration has proclaimed the validity of the outdated and buried Monroe Doctrine, in re-deployment of its imperial policy in the region, threatens Venezuela with special fury and declares that it has "all the options on the table".
There have been failed attempts to bend the Bolivarian Venezuela. Fresh in our minds are still the 2002 military coup; the 2003 oil coup; the aggressive U.S. Executive Order calling Venezuela "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy" of the superpower; the unilateral coercive measures, the call for a military coup against the constitutional Government of Venezuela; the U.S. President's warning to use "a possible military option"; and the attempt of assassination against President Maduro on August 4.
As the Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez said: "The sovereignty of our peoples is decided today in the attitude towards Venezuela. Supporting the legitimate right of the sister nation to decide its fate is defending the dignity of all”.
The acts of a group of countries and the shameful role of the OAS are a new and desperate attempt to implement a failed policy of regime change, which has not been imposed due to the unwavering resistance of the Venezuelan people and their will to defend national sovereignty.
The main threat to peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean is the harassment of the United States and its allies to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in an open disregard for the popular will and the institutionalism of that country, expressed in the elections of 20 May 2018, from which the Venezuelan opposition excluded itself.
The objective of the U.S. government's coup against Venezuela is oil. The national security advisor recognized it without any hesitation when he pointed out: "It will make a big difference if we could have oil companies really invest in and producing in the oil capacities in Venezuela". Their puppet Guaidó has already promised to hand it over.
We reiterate our absolute support for the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution, the civil-military union of the Venezuelan people and their legitimate and democratic government, led by the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros.
We strongly condemn the attempt to impose through a coup d'etat a government at the service of the United States in Venezuela and the recurring calls to the Bolivarian military to join this onslaught.
We reiterate that the main threat to peace and security in our region is U.S. interventionism, the return to the Monroe doctrine, and the harassment against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela with the declared purpose of regime change and with the imperialist objective of looting the world's first oil reserve.
Dear colleagues of the Non-Aligned Movement,
What the Bolivarian Venezuela, its government and its people need today is the solidarity of our Movement.
Cuba and our people, as well as many other members of our movement, knew from the very beginning of our independence and in the face of atrocious campaigns and aggressions, the incalculable value of what unity and solidarity among us means. What threatens Venezuela today could also happen to any of our countries tomorrow.
In a world of enormous and growing imbalances that cause serious threats to international peace and security, to justice and to the dignity of human beings, the greatest strength of our Movement lies in its unity and its strong defense of the founding Bandung principles.
Thank you very much.