The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Group of 77 and China, Unesco Chapters, requested the exclusion of Cuba from the list of nations sponsoring terrorism, drawn up by the United States.
According to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the organizations announced the request in a joint communiqué at the Paris headquarters of that specialized agency of the United Nations.
During the convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which is currently in session at The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, dock workers approved a resolution in favor of Cuba.
The proclamation requests the Biden administration to remove the Greater Antilles from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, as well as to vote in favor of the Cuban resolution that the Caribbean nation presents every year before the United Nations.
Non-governmental and solidarity organizations in the United States reiterated their demand for the exclusion of Cuba from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, on which it arbitrarily remains today.
The Interfaith Foundation for Community Organization IFCO-Pastors for Peace, the Cuba Sí Coalition of New York/New Jersey and the December 12th Movement agreed in recent public statements on the harm caused to the Cuban people by such a disposition in the midst of an intensified blockade.
Scientists, doctors, politicians and diplomats met at the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. to discuss the present and future of collaboration in biomedical and biotechnological research between Cuba and the United States.
The director of the Center for Neurosciences of Cuba, Dr. Mitchel Valdés, the professor of Biophysical Physiology and Psychiatry, Mark Rasenick and the president of Discovery Therapeutics Caribe (DTC), Lee Weingart, presented the opportunities for collaboration that exist between both countries in these sectors.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez today thanked the Agricultural Coalition (Focus Cuba), businessmen and officials from various entities for their participation in the V Cuba-US Agricultural Conference in this capital.
In his official X account, the Cuban Foreign Minister stressed that they remind us of the importance of moving forward and overcoming the absurdity and cruelty of the prohibitions of the intensified blockade that punishes both peoples.
U.S. Congresswoman Pramyla Jayapal advocated removing Cuba from the list of sponsors of terrorism, whose designation, she said, today profoundly limits its capacity to function as a country.
Jayapal, a member of the House of Representatives from the state of Washington, who traveled in February to Havana together with her colleague Ilhan Omar (from Minnesota), gave her considerations in the Save the World Pod, dedicated weekly to the analysis of international issues and foreign policy.
The Cuban ambassador to Panama, Victor Cairo, today denounced the extraterritorial nature of the blockade imposed by the United States on the island for more than six decades.
In an opinion article published in the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá, the diplomat stated that the economic, commercial and financial siege transcends the bilateral framework and quotes the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Alena Dohan, on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures.
Democratic congressmen from Massachusetts asked US President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the list of sponsors of terrorism, a designation issued at the end of Donald Trump's administration, The Hill newspaper reported today.
Members of Congress criticized Trump's inclusion of Cuba in that arbitrary and unilateral list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) and urged Biden to revoke it, published Tuesday an article in the newspaper specialized in political and legislative issues.
Havana, Dec. 10, 2023 - Cuba celebrates this Sunday the International Human Rights Day (HRD) with concrete advances in the promotion and protection of human rights for all its citizens, despite the challenges of the U.S. blockade.
Seventy-five years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the country is strengthening its legal framework and guaranteeing the full exercise of these essential principles.
The chief of the National General Staff of the Cuban Civil Defense, Ramón Pardo, affirmed today that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean island makes it difficult to sustain the early warning system.
Washington's policy against Havana for six decades has created a complex situation for us, stressed Pardo on the opening day of the 11th International Congress on Disasters and the 7th International Conference of Firefighters, which runs until Friday in the capital's Palacio de Convenciones.
