Your Excellencies and my dear friends.
On the accession of the sixth African Continental Conference on Solidarity with Cuba which is taking place in Abuja, the capital of the brotherly country of Nigeria, I wish to extend my personal solidarity with the Government and people of Cuba.
Copenhagen- The Queen Margrethe II of Denmark received in farewell audience the Ambassador of Cuba Yiliam Gómez Sardiñas on September 23 in Amalienborg Palace. The Cuban diplomat presented to the regent her farewell greetings for the end of her mission as ambassador to Denmark.
New York, 23 September 2019. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who is in New York City, heading the Cuban delegation to the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, participated today in the Plenary Session of the High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, held within the framework of this momentous event.
The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas - Peoples’ Treaty of Commerce (ALBA-TCP), assembled at its 19th Political Council, in the context of the 74th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (UN), hereby convey the following agreements:
The official delegation of the Cuba Solidarity Movement in Ghana will be leaving Accra on Sunday, 22nd September, 2019 to the capital of Abuja to participate at the 6th Africa Solidarity Meeting to be held in Abuja, Nigeria from the 23rd -25th September, 2019 with calls for the removal of the US Economic Blockade and sanctions against the Republic of Cuba.
The Official delegation include:
1. Comrade Fredrick Aboagye, AAPRP
2. Comrade Kweretwie Opoku, SFG
3. Comrade Kwesi Pratt Jnr, SFG
4. Comrade Nana Yaw Appiah Kubi, SFG
The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas - Peoples’ Treaty of Commerce (ALBA-TCP), assembled at its 19th Political Council, in the context of the 74th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (UN), hereby convey the following agreements:
They deplored the expulsion of two diplomats from the sisterly Republic of Cuba to the UN by the authorities of the State Department of the United States of America (USA) on September 19, 2019.
Mr. President,
First and foremost, I would like to thank you and the Director-General of WHO for holding this meeting, the relevance of which is shown by the fact that almost half of the world's population does not have access to basic health care services.
New York, 23 September 2019. The main example of the implementation and tightening of the U.S. blockade against Cuba has been the decision of the U.S. Department of State, dated 17 April 2019, to permit the lawsuits conceived by Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which came into force in 1996, also known as the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act. All this despite the opposition from members of Congress -including Republican members-, the business sector, different organizations, and U.S.
Cubaminrex, Havana, September 20, 2019.- The report covers incidents ranging from April 2018 to March this year. Cuban foreign minister reiterated that the blockade continues being the main cause of the difficulties experienced by the Cuban people. (Photo taken from RHC). The US blockade on Cuba was drastically reinforced from April 2018 to March this year, according to the annual report on the effects on the US decades-old measure against Cuba.
Cubaminrex, Havana, September 20, 2019.- The U.S. Government expelled two members of Cuba's diplomatic mission to the United Nations Organization (UN) for allegedly "having carried out activities against the national security of the American country."
