CUBA STRONGLY REJECTS THE THREAT TO ACTIVATE TITLE III OF THE HELMS-BURTON ACT
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs On January 16, 2019,
The US State Department announced the decision to suspend, only for 45 days, the implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, “in order to conduct a careful review …in light of the national interests of the United States and the efforts to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba, and include factors such as the Cuba’s regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms and its indefensible support for increasingly authoritarian and corrupt regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua.” President Donald Trump’s administration threat to take a new step that would dangerously tighten even further the blockade against Cuba would be a flagrant violation of International Law and a direct attack on the sovereignty and interests of third countries. Cuba strongly, firmly and categorically rejects such a threat, which is construed as an extremely arrogant and irresponsible hostile action, and repudiates the disrespectful and slanderous language used in the public announcement made by the State Department.

Cuba strongly rejects the threat to activate Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On January 16, 2019, the US State Department announced the decision to suspend, only for 45 days, the implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, “in order to conduct a careful review …in light of the national interests of the United States and the efforts  to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba, and include factors such as  the Cuba’s regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms and its indefensible support for increasingly authoritarian and corrupt regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua.”

Invited by Her Excellency Ambassador of Austria to Thailand, Dr. Eva Hager, and Dr. Michael J. Dichand, of Güssing Renewable Energy International Holding GmbH,I had the privilege of participating in the inauguration of a renewable energy generation project in Nong Bua, Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Alfredo Nieves Portuondo, in the framework of the 20th anniversary of the episcopal consecration of Baku and Azerbaijan, was received today by Archbishop Alexander at the headquarters of the Eparchy.

The religious leader valued the friendship between both nations, wished that the cooperation develop and reiterated the solidarity with the Cuban people.

Kingston, Jamaica.15 January 2019. Dr. Dayton Campbell, Member of Parliament and Opposition Spokesman on Health, visited the Embassy of Cuba in Jamaica today, where he was received by Ambassador Inés Fors Fernández.

Dr. Campbell and Ambassador Fors talked about the epidemiological situation in Jamaica –which currently suffers an outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever– and the collaboration provided by Cuban specialists in health matters.

The Ambassador of Cuba in Egypt, HE Tania Aguiar Fernández, attended this to the Abdel Nasser mosque January 15 to take part in the activities organized to celebrate the 101st anniversary of the birth of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

A day like today in 1960, during the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Speleological Society of Cuba, in the auditorium of the Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana, the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro gave a historic speech in which he emphasized: "The future of our Homeland has to be, necessarily, a future of men of science, of men of thought". This date has been chosen to commemorate the Cuban Science Day.

Belfast, January 2019. Thanks to the program organized by "Cuba Support Group" to celebrate in Belfast the 60th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban ambassadors Teresita Vicente Sotolongo and Hugo René Ramos Milanes, accredited to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland and in Ireland, respectively, held various work meetings that included a meeting with Declan Kearney, a prominent national leader of the Sinn Féin party.

Belfast, January 2019. As part of the program of activities developed in Belfast by the Cuban ambassadors to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Teresita Vicente Sotolongo, and before Ireland, Hugo René Ramos Milanes, they had a fraternal and emotional meeting with trade unionists and activists of the solidarity movement.