On the occasion of the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, reiterated today the rejection of this type of sanction, due to its arbitrariness and negative impact on the countries that suffer them.
Through the social network Twitter, the Minister insisted on calling for dialogue, multilateralism, and the right to self-determination of peoples as essential principles in international relations.
He emphasized that the commemoration, celebrated for the first time this December 4, aims to raise global awareness about the negative impact of these actions, which are contrary to International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.
The head of Cuban diplomacy denounced the daily damage inflicted on the Cuban people by the U.S. government’s blockade “and its intensified economic warfare and strangulation.”
In his message, Bruno Rodríguez also expressed his solidarity with the nations of the world that are likewise suffering the impact of these illegal and arbitrary measures.
Recently, after a multi-day visit to Cuba, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur, Alena Douhan, stated that the U.S. unilateral measures against Cuba lack legitimacy and violate the human rights of the population.
In statements to the press following her investigations, Douhan asserted that the U.S. blockade limits the Cuban state’s capacity to develop public policies, affects the rights to food and a dignified life, hinders academic exchanges, impairs the supply of energy, drinking water, and medicines, and violates the right to life in general.
IMAGE CREDIT: ACN | Taken from the Twitter account of @BrunoRguezP
[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
