Cuba denounced that There is no justification for excluding Representatives of the Caribbean island, Venezuela and Nicaragua of the Summit of the Americas, which he described as “undemocratic” and “arbitrary”, and highlighted the position of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who refused to attend the meeting.
“There is not a single reason that justifies the undemocratic and arbitrary exclusion of any country in the hemisphere from that continental event,” the Cuban government said in an official statement at the beginning of the summit in Los Angeles, California (western United States).
On May 25, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that in no case would he attend the conclave in Los Angeles, due to the exclusion of the three countries.
The Cuban statement stated that “Come in the arrogance, the fear that uncomfortable truths will be heard” and “the effort to prevent the meeting from deliberating on the most urgent and complex issues in the hemisphere” the US government “chose again for the exclusion as a resource to try to achieve an event without concrete contributions, but useful for the image of imperialism”.
A Joe Biden government official told AFP on Monday that “Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela will not be invited to participate in this Summit” because “the United States continues to have reservations about the lack of democratic spaces and the human rights situation.” in those three countries.
On the other hand, Cuba also express in your statement that the leadership of President López Obrador calling for all the countries of the continent to be invited “Deserves special recognition.”
After weeks of uncertainty, Lopez Obrador, said on Monday that declined the invitation to attend the summit before the exclusion of several countries by the United States.
The Cuban communist government also denounced what it considered were “intense high-level negotiations carried out by the United States with governments in the region, to contain the intention of many to be absent from the event if not everyone was invited.”
“These (managements) included immoral pressure, blackmail, threats and dirty maneuvers of deception. They are habitual practices of imperialism that reflect its traditional contempt for our countries. They deserve the strongest rejection,” he added.
Cuba denounced that There is no justification for excluding Representatives of the Caribbean island, Venezuela and Nicaragua of the Summit of the Americas, which he described as “undemocratic” and “arbitrary”, and highlighted the position of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who refused to attend the meeting.
“There is not a single reason that justifies the undemocratic and arbitrary exclusion of any country in the hemisphere from that continental event,” the Cuban government said in an official statement at the beginning of the summit in Los Angeles, California (western United States).
On May 25, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that in no case would he attend the conclave in Los Angeles, due to the exclusion of the three countries.
The Cuban statement stated that “Come in the arrogance, the fear that uncomfortable truths will be heard” and “the effort to prevent the meeting from deliberating on the most urgent and complex issues in the hemisphere” the US government “chose again for the exclusion as a resource to try to achieve an event without concrete contributions, but useful for the image of imperialism”.
A Joe Biden government official told AFP on Monday that “Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela will not be invited to participate in this Summit” because “the United States continues to have reservations about the lack of democratic spaces and the human rights situation.” in those three countries.
On the other hand, Cuba also express in your statement that the leadership of President López Obrador calling for all the countries of the continent to be invited “Deserves special recognition.”
After weeks of uncertainty, Lopez Obrador, said on Monday that declined the invitation to attend the summit before the exclusion of several countries by the United States.
The Cuban communist government also denounced what it considered were “intense high-level negotiations carried out by the United States with governments in the region, to contain the intention of many to be absent from the event if not everyone was invited.”
“These (managements) included immoral pressure, blackmail, threats and dirty maneuvers of deception. They are habitual practices of imperialism that reflect its traditional contempt for our countries. They deserve the strongest rejection,” he added.
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