The Covid-19 pandemic evidences the need to cooperate despite political differences
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The impact of COVID19 can already be measured and will be assessed in the future by the striking numbers of people infected, the unacceptable numbers of deaths, the unquestionable damages to the world economy, production, trade, employment and personal income of millions of people. It is a crisis that goes well beyond the scope of health.
Over 50 MPs call on government to oppose US blockade of Cuba
MORE than 50 MPs are calling for the British government to intervene against the US blockade of Cuba.
They want Britain to join the international outcry demanding suspension of the illegal blockade which is preventing delivery of medicines and equipment to combat the Covid-19 epidemic.
Labour MP Grahame Morris, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba, co-ordinated a letter to Foreign Secretary and acting Prime Minister Dominic Raab urging the government to make a public statement and raise the issue with the US government.
Coronavirus response: why Cuba is such an interesting case
PRESS RELEASE: British MPs call for US blockade to be suspended during coronavirus pandemic
Fifty one British members of parliament have written to Dominic Raab, the UK Foreign Secretary and acting Prime Minister to call for the US blockade of Cuba to be temporarily suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Grahame Morris MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba, coordinated the letter which asks the British government to make a public statement and to raise the issue directly with its counterparts in the United States’ government.
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects alleged drug trafficking operations through diplomatic note
On 13th April 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba has issued a diplomatic note to the Embassy of the United States in Havana rejecting a statement published in an article by Newsweek magazine on 3rd April 2020 attributed to a "high official" of the United States Department of Defence and according to whom "the United States Intelligence Community has evidence" that drugs are trafficked between Venezuela and Cuba.