Cuba denounces its exclusion from preparations of the Summit of the Americas
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Cuba denounced its exclusion by the U.S. government from the preparations of the 9th Summit of the Americas, slated to take place from June 8 through 10, in Los Angeles, California.
In a press conference in Havana on Monday, the island´s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, spoke about the three principal axes to be discussed at the event: healthcare, migration, and democracy.
The island´s top diplomat urged U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to confirm whether or not Cuba would be invited to the Pan-American event, taking into account that Washington is exerting extreme pressure on numerous governments of the region that privately and respectfully oppose the exclusion.
Rodriguez recalled that Washington sends to the region soldiers, not doctors; its biotech transnationals have obscenely profited with the COVID-19 pandemic and as part of its aggression against the island, it spared no efforts to deprive it of fundamental supplies to face the disease.
Turning to the subject of migration, the Cuban Foreign Minister warned that as part of the Summit´s preparation, a document entitled Letter of Understanding on Migration Management and Protection of Migrants is also being negotiated behind the backs of the international public opinion of the United States, Latin America and Canada.
He said that it is a code that intends to force Latin American and Caribbean states to repress migration, to absorb the migrants that the United States decides to process out of its territory. It incorporates elements of the U.S. racist, xenophobic and xenophobic vision of our migrants that do not address the real causes of migration.
Concerning democracy and human rights, the third axis of the Summit, Rodriguez argued that in the shady negotiations underway, there are attempts to impose that the Organization of American States should certify all elections in the region, and recalled that this is the same OAS that carried out the coup in Bolivia.
How can a summit focused on democracy take place when certain countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are excluded at the arbitrary whim of the host?,the Cuban diplomat asked.
At the end of his statement, Rodriguez stressed that the anticipated exclusion of Cuba from the Summit of the Americas would constitute a severe historical setback concerning the two previous summits in which the island participated on an equal footing with its firm but always calm, respectful and constructive voice.
