ICAP message to the World Movement of Solidarity with Cuba in the time of Covid19 #BlockadeNoSolidarityYes
With deep humanistic conviction, the government and people of Cuba offer the world, once again, the example of militant Solidarity at a time when the planet is facing the global pandemic of the new Coronavirus Sars Cov-2, Covid-19, which has already claimed the lives of more than 70 thousand people in the world in a very short time.
Statement Associations of Cuban Residents in Canada against the blockade
The Associations of Cuban Residents in Canada join our voice to the worldwide demand for the United States to immediately lift the illegal blockade that it unilaterally imposes on Cuba since 1962. This inhumane blockade not only affects our families and friends on the island, making their lives miserable but also hampers the efforts of Cubans who live abroad to help them, given its extraterritorial implementation.
Importance of using non-personal procedures
Ottawa, March 17, 2020 .- Considering the epidemiological situation that exists at the moment, we suggest users of our services make optimal use of the non-personal service: EMAIL and Postal Mail when in need of our consular services. The necessary conditions are in place to guarantee all services (except new passports, notarized documents and citizenship applications) through non-personal procedures.
Cuban-Canadian relationship has remained strong regardless of governing party, says senior Cuban official
'I believe that our relationship for all these years has been guided by state policy,' says Marcelino Medina González.
Political turnover in Ottawa has had little impact over the Canada-Cuba relationship, instead the relationship has remained steadfast due to “state policy,” says a senior Cuban foreign affairs official.
Marcelino Medina González, Cuba’s first deputy minister of Foreign Affairs—the equivalent to Canada’s deputy minister of Foreign Affairs—was in Ottawa last week as part of the fifth round of annual consultations between Cuba and Canada.