In statements to the press regarding the G77+China Summit, to take place on September 15-16 at Havana’s International Conference Center, the head of Cuban diplomacy highlighted Africa’s presence in Cuban culture and the formation of the nation.
Cuba has benefited from extraordinary, persistent and invariable international solidarity, said the Minister, who added that the country “has also modestly made great efforts, because our people are supportive and humanistic in helping others, sharing what we sometimes have.”
“The modest example of the Cuban Revolution, of the Cuban people resisting all pressures and any economic circumstances in the face of a genocidal blockade to make their right to self-determination prevail, defend their independence and sovereignty, and build their own socialist model has always attracted great international support,” Rodríguez pointed out.
He noted that the demand to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade by the United States against Cuba is practically unanimous on the planet.
In the same way as that first South Summit (held in Havana in April 2000), when Cuba emerged from those very difficult years in the 1990s and became a symbol of the strength of the Cuban Revolution, of the unity of our people, of the majority consensus in favor of the Revolution, the G77+China Summit coincidentally takes place 23 years later, he noted. Cuba has a tradition of hosting very important international events, said Rodriguez, who added that the Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in 2006, at which the phrase that described Cuba as a meeting place, as a cultural crossroads, as an indispensable protagonist of the events of the 20th century” emerged.
The Cuban minister noted that those who have doubts about what Cuba is, should come and see it and enjoy its people’s hospitality.
“I am convinced that the extraordinarily successful Summit that will take place this weekend will be celebrated by our people, by the international community, and will also serve as recognition of the unity and solidarity of the Group of 77,” the head of Cuban diplomacy concluded.
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