Statement by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, at the Virtual Extraordinary Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Ibero-american Conference. November 30, 2020.
Her Excellency Mrs. Rebeca Grynspan, Ibero-American Secretary General;
Excellencies, Foreign Ministers and Heads of Delegations of Ibero-America;
May you receive cordial greetings from Havana.
Press release from the Cuban Foreign Ministry: Cuba does not allow the United States to interfere in internal affairs
Havana, November 28, 2020. On the afternoon of Saturday, November 28th, 2020, the Director-General in charge of the United States of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, summoned the United States Charge d'Affaires in Havana Timothy Zúñiga-Brown, to whom he transferred that "Cuba does not allow the United States or any state to interfere in the internal affairs of the country." He also asked him to reiterate that statement to the State Department.
The Helms-Burton Act: codification of the blockade and strengthening of its extraterritorial effect
New York, 24 November 2020. The main example of the application and strengthening of the US blockade against Cuba has been the decision of the US Department of State, on 17 April 2019, to allow legal actions under Title III of the Act known as Helms-Burton, which came into force in 1996, under the name of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (Libertad Act).
US blockade: Persecution of Cuba´s economic activity
New York, 17 November 2020. Between April 2019 and March 2020, the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments, in keeping with the policy of hostility announced by the Donald Trump´s government, introduced regulatory changes under the laws of the blockade against Cuba.
New Ambassadors present Copies of Credentials that accredit them as ambassadors to the Cuban government
New York, 17 November 2020. H.E. Mr. Jörundur Valtýsson, H.E. Mr. Viliami Va'inga Tōnē and H.E. Mr. Sidi Mohamed Laghdaf, Permanent Representatives to the United Nations of Iceland, the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania respectively, presented today to Anayansi Rodríguez Camejo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, the copies of credentials as ambassadors of their respective countries appointed to the government of the Republic of Cuba, with residence in New York.