MIAMI, United States. – Esteban Lazo Hernández, the president of the National Assembly of the Popular Power of Cuba, condemned this Wednesday, in Moscow, the Western sanctions against Russia and assured that the conflict in Ukraine had been provoked by the rapprochement of the military structures of the United States and NATO to the Russian borders, according to a report by the news agency EFE.
“Cuba warned that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if the United States and NATO had not approached the borders of the Russian Federation and if a military doctrine of an increasingly offensive nature had not been imposed in that alliance,” Lazo Hernández assured before the Russian Senate.
Likewise, the official of the Cuban regime condemned the “unilateral sanctions adopted against the Russian Federation by the governments of the West, in general, and the United States, in particular.”
Lazo Hernández took advantage of the occasion to thank Russia’s support for the island’s regime and called on Russian companies to invest in the largest of the Antilles.
“We consider it essential that Russian companies actively participate in investment projects in Cuba, taking advantage of the possibilities offered by Law No. 118 on foreign investment,” he said.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the island’s regime has shown solidarity with Moscow and criticized kyiv.
On October 12, Havana abstained to condemn Russia for the annexation of Ukrainian territories, during a vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations. However, this multinational body approved with a resounding majority the resolution condemning the “illegal referendums” carried out in four Ukrainian regions and Russia’s attempts to annex those territories.
On October 21, the Cuban government also opposed the intervention of the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, in the annual high-level debates of the UN General Assembly.
Although on that occasion Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Nicaragua and Syria also opposed it, the member states overwhelmingly approved kyiv’s request that Zelensky could speak before the rest of the world leaders without having to travel to New York. , given the state of war in your country.
Also the 1st. March the island’s regime confirmed its support for Russia during an emergency session of the UN General Assembly in which the majority of the organization’s member states condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Shortly before, on February 23, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) had blamed the United States for “imposing the progressive expansion of NATO towards the borders of the Russian Federation.”
Through a statement issued, MINREX declared that Russia had the right to defend itself and accused the US government of “threatening” the Eurasian country and “manipulating the international community about the dangers of an imminent massive invasion of Ukraine”, as well as developing an anti-Russian propaganda campaign.
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