The National Association of Friendship between Italy and Cuba (Anaic) condemned the resolution against the Caribbean nation approved this Thursday by the European Parliament, which it describes as an act of political aggression, according to a statement released in Rome.
In this statement, Anaic explains that the resolution is a manifestation of the subservience of European right-wing forces to the dictates of the United States, an action that contravenes the most basic norms of international law, which prohibit interference in the internal affairs of nations.
The solidarity association regrets that the European Parliament has adopted such an anti-Cuban stance, “precisely while the US administration is tightening the criminal economic, commercial, and financial blockade that has been illegally strangling the Cuban people for more than sixty years.”
They consider it “an intolerable act of hypocrisy” that right-wing MEPs ignore in their resolution that the economic hardships suffered by the Cuban population today are the direct result of a ruthless and asymmetric economic war waged by the United States against that country.
With its most recent measures of this kind, the US government “is expanding secondary sanctions to affect even European companies that trade with the island,” the document, titled “Don’t Touch Cuba,” emphasizes.
By calling for a review of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba (PDCA), which establishes the legal framework for bilateral relations, the resolution “chooses to align itself with the dictates of the White House instead of defending the economic autonomy of our continent and international law,” the text points out.
“The Europe that today presumes to lecture on democracy and calls for the end of the ADPC is the same Europe that forgets Cuba’s extraordinary international solidarity,” they stated, citing as an example the Cuban medical brigades that supported Italy during the darkest months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and those currently serving in Calabria.
The ANAIC reiterated in the statement that “Cuba’s sovereignty, self-determination, and social model belong exclusively to the Cuban people” and that no foreign parliament has the right to interfere in the internal political processes of a sovereign state.
In this regard, the statement continued, “we urge the Italian government and the European Union to reject the sanctions contained in that resolution, maintain their firm commitment to bilateral dialogue and mutual respect, and demand the immediate end to the US blockade, the true and sole cause of the Cuban people’s suffering.”
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
