Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio heads Cuban delegation that is in Washington, DC, to participate in the talks that give continuity to those held in April 2022 here and then in November in Havana.
As anticipated on Tuesday, the deputy general director for the United States at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, Johana Tablada, another important issue for this round of talks will be the complaint against the political asylum granted to the hijacker of an aircraft.
In a recent interview that Deputy Foreign Minister Fernandez de Cossio granted to Prensa Latina, he warned that as long as the United States Government grants asylum to hijackers, it cannot be said that its real purpose is to end irregular migration.
With this action, he said, the US Government becomes an accomplice to and a participant in an extremely serious crime that violates the agreements established between the two countries, as well as Cuban law, international law and civil aeronautics standards.
The deputy minister recalled that history shows that the United States, far from responding “to their national priorities in immigration matters, what weighs heavily on them are the priorities of political subversion against Cuba.”
He emphasized that the fundamental causes of “this pronounced emigration of Cubans to the United States, including those who leave irregularly above all, is due to known reasons.”
In this regard, Fernandez de Cossio noted the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed for more than six decades on Cuba, a policy “aimed at depressing the standards of living of the Cuban population” and eroding the ability of its economy to function.
Some 300,000 Cubans have left their country since October 2021 and, in the opinion of the deputy foreign minister, as long as the United States maintains a policy of economic war against Cuba, it is very difficult to think that the migration potential will decrease.
He pointed out that the United States encourages migration because the Cuba Adjustment Act continues to be in force and enforced, a unique privilege for Cubans who will soon be 60 years old.
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