The Republic of Congo´s Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Congolese Abroad Minister Jean-Claude Gakosso, for example, deplored the existence of the unilateral blockade and all the coercive measures to which the Cuban people are being subjected without justification and in violation of international law.
Gakosso also urged Joe Biden´s administration to banish this vestige of the Cold War and to normalize its relations with Cuba, a demand that the global community has been making for years.
Cuba, Gakosso assured, will bequeath to posterity a lesson of courage, resilience and fidelity.
According to Niger´s Foreign Minister Sangaré Yaou Bakary, his country strongly rejects the punitive policies imposed on sovereign and independent nations, and cleared up that they constitute an example of injustices exercised by great powers.
Naledi Pandor, South Africa´s International Relations and Cooperation Minister, also told how Cuba is being subjected to the cruelest and most inhuman measures, which must be put an end to.
The foreign minister also expressed her country’s gratitude to the Cuban people and government, which, she acknowledged, sacrificed lives to decisively promote the struggle (in Africa) against colonialism, racism and apartheid.
Chile’s Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation Minister Aisén Etcheverry repeated her gratitude to Cuba.
During her speech, she recalled Cuba´s solidarity country when, after the 1973 coup in Chile, it was able to extend a hand to the persecuted.
My country, she added, has been consistent in its rejection of the U.S. blockade and we will continue to call the attention of the international community to the illegality and irrationality of this type of measures against an entire people.
Likewise, she recalled the words of the Chilean President Gabriel Boric at the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States-European Union, where he described as unacceptable the declaration of Cuba as a State sponsoring terrorism.
Panama’s Foreign Minister Janaina Tewaney also stated that her country strongly rejects unilateral dispositions such as the US blockade that weighs on Cuba.
One of the strongest speeches against the US blockade was given by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Besides pointing out Cuba as a victim of an illegal blockade, he rejected its inclusion in Washington’s States Sponsoring Terrorism (SST) list.
“Brazil is against any unilateral coercive measure,” Lula added.
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