In an exclusive conversation with Prensa Latina, Luis Morlote, representative of Cuba’s National People’s Power Assembly of Cuba and the friendship group at the Euro-Latin American (EuroLat) meeting and Parlatino with the Cuban Parliament, noted the success of the event, which was held in a constructive atmosphere.
“It is not a coincidence that this event is taking place just after the highest-level meeting between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in order, as we, parliamentarians, had proposed, to give continuity to a common agenda, an integration mechanism to debate the issues that concern our peoples,” he explained.
Morlote, who is also the president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), stated that for Cuba, it is relevant to attend the EuroLat event, since President Miguel Díaz-Canel took part in the EU-CELAC Summit, at which he established the Cuba’s positions and in the international context.
The parliamentarian stressed that the EuroLat meeting, which took place from July 24 to 27 at the headquarters of the Spanish Senate in Madrid, contributed to a deep exchange about the two regions’ interests and Cuba’s vision, which is always welcomed with respect and enthusiasm by the rest of the legislators.
“Cuba has a lot to contribute and, for example, the fight against Covid-19 was discussed here and our country offered its experience with the creation of vaccines and health care, which has been acknowledged in this assembly,” Morlote explained.
He added that speeches dealt with human survival, the depletion of resources, the call to multilateralism, the desire for unity to which Cuba has always called, and at the same time, the desire for knowledge of what we do at the legislative level and the new initiatives that we implement.
The Cuban delegation, which also included Foreign Relations Commission President Rolando González Patricio, the specialist of the National Assembly, Dr. Jesús Rafael Mora, and Cuban Chargé d’Affaires to Spain Indira Groero, positively valued a joint declaration from the left-wing blocs of Europe and Latin America.
In this regard, the text celebrated that the 7th CELAC Summit, held in Buenos Aires this year, and ratified Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.
Likewise, it appreciated the condemnation of and demand for the unconditional lifting of the criminal and intensified economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States Government on the Cuban people for more than 60 years, and we demanded the exclusion of Cuba from the Washington’s State sponsors of Terrorism list.
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