Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed his gratitude for the support shown to Cuba in the face of U.S. hostility during a meeting with solidarity organizations in the United States.
The exchange took place in New York City at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations. Earlier on Tuesday, the Cuban foreign minister addressed the United Nations Security Council session.
Rodríguez Parrilla reported on the meeting on X, explaining to American and Cuban friends residing in the U.S. how the current administration in the White House is threatening to create a humanitarian crisis in Cuba to justify military aggression.
He noted that, to this end, they are resorting to the extreme intensification of the blockade with additional measures, secondary sanctions, and an oil embargo.
“I expressed my gratitude for their activism and continued denunciation of the actions of the United States government against our country, as well as their support for the Cuban people through the shipment of much-needed supplies and medicines.”
This Tuesday, the head of Cuban diplomacy denounced before the UN Security Council Washington’s attempts to legitimize military action against Cuba.
He mentioned, in this regard, the filing of criminal charges against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, which he described as a morally reprehensible act, illegally arbitrary in several respects, and a violation of the right of states to self-defense.
He further stated that the energy blockade imposed by the United States on the island is equivalent in its effects to a naval blockade, which is an act of war and genocide that subjects the population to conditions that threaten its integrity and existence, and constitutes a cruel and indiscriminate collective punishment that today causes deaths, as reflected in the doubling of the infant mortality rate from four to 9.2 per thousand live births or the reduction in the life expectancy of children with cancer from 85 to 65 percent.
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[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
