The resolution, registered as 2023/2744(RSP) “echoes the campaign of the United States to isolate Cuba and justify the genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by that country against the island for more than sixty years,” it said in a press release.

The Colombian collective points out that the European Parliament, once again, bows to Washington’s designs, this time to condemn Cuba and stop the implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, signed in 2016 that put an end to the “common position” and that since 1996, imposed a unilateral and restrictive relationship with the island.

The Fidel Castro Chair also repudiated the interfering character of the European Parliament whose functions are circumscribed to the scope of European countries and has no reason to investigate on the “situation of Human Rights in Cuba”.

It considered that the EP should rather review its own practice of violating human rights against thousands of immigrants and the police brutality that the authorities of their countries exercise over their citizens.

They should also be concerned about their actions against the people in their war adventures in other parts of the world, actions that show their contempt for human rights and democracy, it emphasized.

In the opinion of the solidarity community, it is at least embarrassing that the European Parliament lends itself to the practices of anti-Cuban sectors on Human Rights issues, among them, the presentation of common criminals as political detainees.

Cuba has the right to defend itself against terrorists who have been financed by the United States, as in cases that have been known for decades, among which the attacks that have left a high number of dead and injured victims stand out, it stressed.

The Chair reaffirmed its solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and demanded respect for the right of its people and government to self-determination and condemned the tightening of the blockade by the United States, with the addition of 243 measures adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic.

It called on the international community to reprove the guidelines established by the country which exercises terrorism in various parts of the world and which lacks any kind of authority to impose sanctions.

The blockade is the main obstacle to Cuba’s development and its inclusion in such an embarrassing list prevents foreign investment, hinders trade and, in short, deteriorates the Cuban economy, it stressed.

At the same time, it demanded that Cuba be removed from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and recalled, in this context, Cuba’s role in the progress of the peace processes in Colombia.

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