Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Cuba strongly rejects the threat to activate Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.
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.”
After 60 years of struggle, sacrifices, efforts and victories, we see a free, independent country, the master of its own destiny.
Speech by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, at the central act to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, in Santiago de Cuba, January 1st, 2019, “Year 61 of the Revolution”.
(Council of State transcript / GI translation)
SANTIAGO women and men;
Compatriots of all Cuba:
We will move forward. And we will continue to be victorious.
Speech by Miguel M. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, at the close of the Second Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People’s Power’s Ninth Legislature, Havana International Conference Center, December 22, 2018, “Year 60 of the Revolution”.
DEAR Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Party Central Committee;
Compañeros Machado and Lazo;
Deputies;
Compatriots:
Cuba reaffirms at the United Nations that respecting the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of States is part of the Culture of Peace.
New York, 12 December 2018. Cuba participated in the General Debate on Item 35 on Culture of Peace of the United Nations General Assembly, reiterating the validity of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, as well as its commitment to this agenda and to multilateralism.
Statement by Carlos Fernández de Cossío, General Director for U.S. Affairs on U.S. State Department's false accusations.
La Habana, December 10, 2018. The General Director for U.S. Affairs at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, rejected the text on Cuba published by the U.S. Secretary of State in the night of December 10th, 2018.