(credit un.org) Miguel Marion Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the President of Cuba, in speech to the high-level United Nations General Debate at the General Assembly on Thursday Sept. 23, 2021
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Cuba’s President Miguel Marion Díaz-Canel Bermúdez denounced the foreign policy of the United States which, he said, is promoting a “dangerous international schism…through the pernicious use and abuse of economic coercive measures”. The Cuban president made the pointed remarks in speech to the high-level United Nations General Debate at the General Assembly on Thursday. Bermúdez appeared via a pre-recorded video. The Cuban leader went on to accuse the US of pressuring countries to speak and act against adversaries, overthrowing legitimate governments, and breaking trade agreements.
“It is a kind of behaviour associated to ideological and cultural intolerance, with a remarkable racist influence and hegemonic ambition purposes”.
-Cuba President Miguel Marion Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
Bermúdez claimed that US attacks against Cuba have “exceeded all limits, referring to the US Government’s maintenance of his country on a list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
“For more than 60 years, the US government has not ceased for a single minute in its attacks against Cuba. However, at this crucial and challenging moment for all nations, its aggressiveness exceeds all limits. The most cruel and longest-lasting economic, commercial and financial blockade ever applied against any nation, has been opportunistically and criminally tightened during the pandemic; and the current democratic administration maintains unchanged the 243 coercive measures adopted by the Donald Trump administration, including Cuba’s inclusion in the spurious and immoral list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism. It is in this context that an Unconventional War is launched against our country, to which the US Government has allocated, in a public and notorious manner, millions through manipulation campaigns and lies, with the use of the new information technologies and other digital platforms, in order to portray, internally and externally, an absolutely false image of the Cuban reality, sow confusion, destabilize and discredit the country and vindicate the ‘change of regime’ doctrine. They have done everything to erase the Cuban Revolution from the political map to the world. They accept no alternatives to the model they conceive for their own backyard.”
-Cuba President Miguel Marion Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
A strong UN has key role in bringing peace, security and social justice: Cuban President
He said the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have rendered the United Nations even more important, at a time when international cooperation has been insufficient, and “neo-liberal formulas” have reduced States’ capabilities to meet the needs of their populations.
“The most vulnerable have been left unprotected, while rich nations, the elites and the pharmaceutical transnational corporations have continued to profit”, he stated.
The Cuban people, he declared, have the right to live in peace and security, development, wellbeing, and social justice, adding that “a revitalized, democratized and strengthened United Nations is called to play a key role in this effort.”
