He noted the traditional solidarity and friendship between the peoples of India and Cuba, and conveyed the infinite gratitude of Cubans for India’s support for the global request to end to the genocidal blockade by the United States, during a lecture at the theater of the Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan, which belongs to the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Gaute pointed out that dialogue between the Indian and Cuban peoples is fluid and natural, like the meeting in 1960 between Fidel Castro and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the Theresa Hotel in Harlem, New York, or the welcome here of the mythical Guerrilla Commander Ernesto Che Guevara in 1959.
He also reminded participants about the famous meetings between Fidel Castro and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the last of which was during the 7th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in New Delhi in 1983.
The ICAP vice president expressed the Cuban people’s staunch will and decision to maintain the achievements of the Revolution and to continue to resist Washington’s criminal blockade, which inflicts big damage on the Cuban family.
Despite this, Cuba will continue to share in solidarity everything it has with other peoples, Gaute asserted.
Regarding Cuba’s situation, the visitor explained that the new National People’s Power Assembly (Parliament) will renew 62 percent of its members and in terms of gender it will be made up of more than 50 percent of women.
He noted that the composition of those under 35 years of age in Parliament will be bigger than that of the previous legislature and, in turn, most lawmakers will come directly from neighborhoods and communities.
Amid the most adverse circumstances due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Gaute recalled, Cuba sent brigades of doctors to several countries of the world, including Europe, to attend to the most needy people.
Cuba has successfully immunized its entire population from two years of age against Covid-19 with its own vaccines, an achievement that resulted from Fidel Castro’s vision of developing the biotechnology sector in the country.
Cuba had to deal with the difficulties of the international economic crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the long-standing US blockade, which was intensified with 243 new sanctions by the Donald Trump administration, which President Joe Biden maintained later.
In order to overcome all these challenges, Cubans feel accompanied by the Indian people, who have remained in solidarity with Cuba’s cause for more than 60 years, the ICAP leader stressed at the plenary.
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