At the closing session of the 6th International Conference for the Balance of the World, the head of State invited participants to follow the legacy of National Hero José Martí, from the example of the historic leader Fidel Castro and the generation of the Centennial.

“From free and sovereign Cuba, which resists and creates without tiring, we ratify to the Martí followers everywhere that we will continue to fight for the balance of the world, as a contribution to the preservation of the human species” the president stated.

The dignitary acknowledged the support of the Cuban people, “who have been paying the high price of having no price for 66 years.”

“I want to share the fervent wish that Martí continues to call us, that his optimism raised by a sword, even in the most adverse scenarios, be a horizon and a teaching,” he stressed.

In his speech, Díaz-Canel favored a free Palestine and ratified his condemnation of the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.

He also condemned Cuba’s re-inclusion in the unilateral list of States Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) and its effects on any commercial or financial transactions.

Díaz-Canel also referred to the illegal occupation by the United States of the Guantanamo Naval Base, “where people who the empire declares enemies and guilty most of the time without a single evidence of their crime are tortured and imprisoned,” he said.

“As if this infamy, which has been condemned hundreds of times by international courts, were not enough, now they tell us that 30,000 deportees will be sent to the Guantanamo Naval Base,” he denounced.

Despite this scenario, the president stressed that Cuba will not remain silent in view of this infamy, “nor will we lose confidence and faith in the improvement of future life and the usefulness of virtue.”

The Cuban president described Palestine as an example of heroism and resistance.

In the panel “War and domination versus resistance and solidarity,” the president reiterated that Cuba’s commitment to this people is historic, because “it has a lot to do with what Fidel (Castro) taught us about Palestine, and with our ties of friendship.”

He explained that Cuba is home to more than 100 young Palestinian students, whom it recognizes as its children and will accompany them in their academic training process, “because they are the focus of resistance for the present and for the future.”

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