Cuban Foreign Minister Denounces U.S. Blockade at the UN

Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba's minister of Foreign Affairs, denounced this Wednesday at the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) on the 40th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development the tightening of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.

According to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cubaminrex, Rodríguez Parrilla stated in his address that the energy siege imposed by Washington seeks to cause extraordinary humanitarian damage and hinders all commercial relations with Cuba through secondary sanctions and pressure on governments and international actors.

The foreign minister noted that an international order is taking shape in which the U.S. government intends to decide with whom other countries may trade and what cooperation they may maintain.

He stressed that this scheme, based on sanctions and coercion, is unsustainable and dangerous for all peoples, since today it is applied against Cuba and tomorrow it can be imposed on any other state.

The minister asserted that the United States will not succeed in bending the will of the Cuban people or in making the nation renounce its right to self-determination.

Rodríguez Parrilla reiterated that, together with the Non-Aligned Movement, Cuba will continue advocating for a world where development is a universal right and not a privilege of a few.