Ugandan MPs Join Global Push to Remove Cuba from U.S. Terrorism List
A group of Ugandan Members of Parliament has joined over 600 lawmakers from 73 countries in demanding the United States remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The MPs include; Dr. Charles Ayume, Andrew Ojok Oulanyah, Judith Alyek, Atukwasa Rita, Rwemulikya Ibanda, Onore Derrick, Twaha Kagabo, and Kintu Florence Tumwine. They signed the global letter, which calls for an end to what they term as the “cruel and illegal” sanctions imposed on Cuba, citing the damage they inflict on the island nation’s economy and its people.
Remarks by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the Schomburg Center in Harlem. September 23, 2024.
Good evening,
Kevin C. Williams, Deputy Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Afro-Descendant Culture.
Dr. Rosemari Mealy and Manolo De Los Santos
Co-Conveners, Harlem-Cuba Welcome Committee
Dear All,
For Cubans, it is always an honor and a source of satisfaction to visit Harlem and pay tribute to its people.
We are united by historical ties of solidarity and cultural affinity.
That is why we always make use of our commitments to the United Nations to visit Harlem whenever we are in New York.
Nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 countries call on the United States to remove Cuba from the list of “State sponsors of terrorism”
Nearly 600 parliamentarians from 73 countries around the world wrote a joint letter, coordinated and published by the Progressive International (PI), in which they condemn the designation of Cuba by the United States as a “State sponsor of terrorism” as “cynical, cruel and a clear violation of international law.” In the letter, published today, Friday, September 20, the legislators call on their respective governments to “take immediate measures to advocate for the removal [of the designation].”
The First International Seminar on Parliamentary Diplomacy was held in Cuba
Havana, September 19, 2024.- Topics of relevance to the international community such as the defense of human rights, peaceful solutions and the preservation of world peace were presented this Thursday, from an academic perspective of parliaments, at the First International Seminar on Parliamentary Diplomacy.
The event, which will run until Friday, took place in the National Capitol of Cuba, the institutional headquarters of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), with the representation of around twenty nations.
Press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba
On September 9 and 10, 2024, experts from the governments of Cuba and the United States held a seminar and a tabletop exercise as part of the implementation of the Cuba-US Bilateral Coordination Plan on the preparation and response to pollution caused by spills of hydrocarbons and other potentially dangerous substances in the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida. These exchanges respond to the Cooperation Agreement on the matter, signed between both countries on January 9, 2017.