Pretoria, April 23, 2019.- The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, thanked the international support for Cuba in response to the new sanctions against the Island announced by the United States government on April 17.
The trap
By Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Since the beginning of this year the United States State Department has issued several announcements on the partial suspension of the implementation of some aspects of a chapter of the so-called Helms-Burton Act. It has been done so with a cheating style, fraudulent, characteristic of the current rulers, with the clear intention of creating uncertainty and confusion, purpose for which they count, as usual, with the means they were supposed to devote themselves to reporting.
On January 16, 2019, the United States State Department announced the decision to suspend for only 45 days the application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, “to conduct a careful review… in light of the national interests of the United States and efforts to expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba and include factors such as the Cuban regime’s brutal oppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms and its indefensible support for increasingly authoritarian and corrupt regimes in Venezuela and Nicaragua.”
Mr. President;
Your Excellencies permanent representatives;
Distinguished delegates;
U.S. citizens and Cubans resident in the United States who are present in this hall:
I would like to express to the people and government of the United States; Mayor Bill De Blasio; Governor Andrew Cuomo; and other authorities in New York; as well as its citizens and especially families of the victims, our most heartfelt condolences, in the name of the Cuban people and government, for the terrorist attack which occurred yesterday afternoon.
NIGERIA, OCTOBER 26, 2017. Yesterday afternoon, Nigeria's Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama received the Cuban ambassador, Carlos Trejo Sosa, accredited to the country.
The main objective of the meeting was to exchange ideas about the permanence of the US blockade imposed on the Cuban archipelago more than five decades ago. The dialogue took place in a respectful and cordial atmosphere reflecting the current relations between Cuba and Nigeria. They also discussed other current issues of international concern.
Liberia-Cuba Friendship Association expressed its rejection to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US government to Cuba, in a statement last October 29 statement. The initiative, promoted and organized by Liberians graduates in Cuba who are also members of the Organization, was signed on behalf of all by his vicepresident, Bachelor of Physical Culture Kesselee Kanneh, a graduate of the Institute of Physical Culture Comandante Manuel Fajardo of Cuba.
In the afternoon of Friday, September 30, the Chargé d'affaires of the Cuban diplomatic mission in Liberia, Yordenis Despaigne Vera, was received in one of the classrooms of the Institute of Foreign Service of Liberia "Gabriel L. Dennis." His visit had as main objective to deliver a thematic conference entitled "The blockade hurts the people of Cuba". To the nearly thirty students, joined Prof. Kasseleh King Kanneh and the Director General of the academic institution, PhD. Augustine Konneh. On the Cuban side also was present the Second Secretary Carmen Maury Toledo.
The charge d'affaires of the Cuban diplomatic mission in Liberia, Yordenis Despaigne Vera, accompanied by Second Secretary Carmen Maury Toledo received editors and photojournalists of different Liberian press media. Visitors were invited to be active participants in a press conference entitled "The blockade hurts the people of Cuba".
The Director of American Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, Mr. Sie-Teba Neuville, received at his office the Chargé d'Affairs of Cuba, Yordenis Despaigne Vera.
The Deputy Minister for International Cooperation and Economic Integration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, Mr. Dephue Zuo, received at his office the Chargé d'Affairs of Cuba, Yordenis Despaigne Vera. They were also present, for the Liberian side Mr. Sie-Teba Neuville, Director of American Affairs of the Foreign Ministry and Carmen Maury Toledo, Second Secretary of the Cuban diplomatic mission
