the Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canelassured this Monday that the next Summit of the Americas, which will be held in the US city of Los Angeles, should be the entire continent and not just “the US and its selective states.”
The Cuban president made these statements while participating in a solidarity forum with Cuba, in Havana, in which he addressed the more than a thousand representatives from more than 50 nations who traveled to the country on the occasion of the first of May.
“We want a Summit of the Americas and not a summit of the United States and its selective states,” said Díaz-Canel regarding the continental meeting, as reported official media.
The Cuban leader described Washington’s policy towards his country as “failed” and denounced that Washington has the objective of “exercising maximum pressure, to generate destabilization” on the island. However, he was sure that with this policy the United States “It will fail again in its purpose of overthrowing the revolution,” quotes a dispatch from the agency EFE.
“The great challenges of humanity are not solved through confrontation and violence, but through solidarity and cooperation,” added Díaz-Canel, who considered that “solidarity cannot be blocked,” added the press information.
The Cuban president thanked in this regard the declaration signed by the participants in the forum against the exclusion of the Island -and other countries of the continent- from this meeting of American leaders, to whose last two editions the largest of the Antilles was invited.
The 1,077 participants – from 60 countries and 219 associations and organizations – signed another declaration against the United States embargo, on which the Cuban president reiterated that it is the “greatest obstacle” to Cuba’s development and that its effect, ” multiple and diverse”, is part of “a prolonged, asymmetrical war”.
Díaz-Canel took the opportunity to thank the participants in the forum for their support for Cuba and their presence at the Labor Day event in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución.
“Thank you for being here, thank you for the solidarity and thank you for moving us these days,” he assured, quoted by EFEto add that Cuba “will never forget this day or those who came to join us in the first celebration of May Day, under the very difficult conditions in which the pandemic has left the world of workers in all latitudes.”
Among the countries represented stood out Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Panama, Spain, Canada, South Africa, among others, refers the Spanish agency.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced last week that the US government was excluding his country from the preparations for the Summit of the Americas. The next day, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Brian A. Nichols, acknowledged that it was “unlikely” that his country would invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Precisely Nichols confirmed this Monday that the Biden Administration “does not expect his presence” at the summit, considering that they are countries that “do not respect” democracy.
“Cuba, Nicaragua and the regime of (Nicolás) Maduro do not respect the democratic charter of the Americas and therefore I do not expect their presence,” said the US undersecretary in an interview with NTN24.
The official stressed that the president Joe Biden “It has been very clear that countries that do not respect democracy are not going to receive their invitation” to the summit, which will bring together heads of state and government of the region, reports another report from EFE.
In the opposite direction, it was pronounced this Monday Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. In his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, the Mexican president asked himself “how not to invite everyone, so where are they from, from what continent, from what galaxy, from what satellite?” an office from the agency Latin Press (PL).
In his opinion, one should go to the summit “to dialogue, to understand each other, to brother each other”, and for this “we must say no to confrontation”, adds the media outlet, which points out that López Obrador revealed that he had dealt with the issue “very directly” in a recent phone conversation with Biden.
The Mexican president added that he (Biden) told him that he was going to think about it. “Hopefully there will be an open invitation, and whoever doesn’t want to go shouldn’t go, but no one is excluded,” he said.
EFE / OnCuba
