Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, stated on his Facebook profile that “Cuba is a nation of peace; it neither threatens, challenges, nor provokes the U.S. or any other country in the world.”
The president noted that “the idea that Cuba represents a threat to the U.S. exists only in the sick minds of some officials in the current U.S. administration who have hijacked the policy toward our island, who blatantly lie to the people of that nation and the world to justify a new irrational war with a potentially high cost in human lives for both countries.”
Díaz-Canel recalled that “the Cuban Revolution has sought to live in peace since its triumph, but successive US administrations have threatened that right time and again.”
He added that “now they are doing so at extreme levels, combining absurd lies with military intimidation and depriving the Cuban people of the most basic resources and services for their daily survival.”
The Cuban president denounced that “the country [the United States] that has harbored the most infamous terrorists on this continent, who have acted against Cuba for years, maintains its empty rhetoric of labeling us as sponsors of terrorism, without presenting a single shred of evidence and with the overwhelming condemnation of the international community.”
He emphasized that “it is all part of an accelerated media campaign to justify military aggression against Cuba, a fevered dream of a remnant of Cuban-origin mafiosos.”
Miguel Díaz-Canel reaffirmed that “to the American people and to the decent politicians of that country, we reiterate that Cuba neither threatens, nor challenges, nor provokes the United States or any other country in the world. Cuba is a nation of peace.”
He indicated that “we are protected by the right to self-defense established by international law.”
“Our people and our Armed Forces have a long tradition of struggle, resistance and victory forged in the Sierra Maestra, the Bay of Pigs, and the internationalist missions in Africa. Now will be no different.”
And the Cuban leader concluded by saying that “even so, we continue to believe that reason, dialogue and peace will prevail.”
IMAGE CREDIT: ACN | Taken from Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez’s Facebook page
[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
