Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced this Tuesday a campaign of lies orchestrated by the United States to justify its aggression against the Island, while reaffirming the Caribbean nation's peaceful vocation and confirming that the UN General Assembly will debate for the 32nd time the resolution against the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by Washington on July 7.

In a press conference, the Foreign Minister showed documents circulating clandestinely which, he said, constitute the basis of the pressures the U.S. government exerts on foreign governments and diplomats to prevent the UN General Assembly session. Rodríguez described as "mendacious, slanderous chapters offensive to the dignity and sovereignty of any State" a document titled "The regime must reform itself," while another, presenting Cuba as a belligerent party in the Ukraine war, is "full of lies, without a single piece of evidence, without a single fact."

Likewise, the chancellor categorically rejected the military threat from the planet's largest military and nuclear power against Cuba and reiterated that there are no foreign military bases on the Island. "The only foreign base that usurps territory from our country is the U.S. base occupying territory in Guantánamo," stated the head of Cuban diplomacy.

Rodríguez emphasized that Cuba has been, is, and will be a country of peace, and recalled that Havana was the site where the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace was signed.

U.S. pressures to prevent the debate

The Cuban diplomat denounced that the U.S. government has deployed "an inconceivable effort" to prevent the July 7 session, using pressures, blackmail, and threats against other governments and chancelleries. "The United States' permanent mission in New York is threatening to take procedural actions to prevent the General Assembly from meeting and deliberating on this issue," he stated.

Rodríguez revealed that the State Department's diplomatic apparatus is trying to prevent the General Assembly from considering an issue of global interest. "They try to censor its voice and its right to speak on a matter directly related to international peace and security and the well-being of an entire people," he added.

Nevertheless, he expressed confidence that the vast majority of the international community will support Cuba in the session, which he considered as "supporting international law and the United Nations Charter." The chancellor recalled that the blockade has been condemned on 31 occasions by the General Assembly with the backing of the vast majority of the international community.

"The General Assembly, the most democratic, universal, and representative body of the United Nations, will be able to address this issue objectively and surely in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter," he emphasized.

Multidimensional aggression and incalculable damages

Rodríguez described the multidimensional U.S. aggression against Cuba as "a crime against humanity in full execution," and denounced that the energy siege and other extreme blockade intensification measures constitute "an act of genocide, also characterized as collective punishment and a massive, flagrant, and systematic violation of the human rights of Cubans and of international humanitarian law."

The chancellor stated that Cuba is not and cannot be a threat to the United States. "The blockade and the U.S. government's policy of aggression and hostility against Cuba is a threat to the existence and well-being of the Cuban people, to the exercise of their human rights," he emphasized.