The Chancellor’s speech Bruno Rodríguez last Wednesday before the diplomatic corps has fallen on deaf ears in the European Union. Diplomats from EU member countries will support the Civic March for Change on November 15 and must report the events to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, according to reveals the spanish newspaper The world.
According to sources in the Madrid newspaper, the delegation of the European Parliament for Relations with Central America and Cuba wrote a letter requesting Borrell that EU diplomats observe on the ground what happens next Monday under the Vienna Convention.
The European Chancellor, after speaking with the responsible MEPs –Javier Nart (independent), Tilly Metz (The Greens) and Jens Gieseke (Christian Democrat) -, has given the go-ahead and asked the representatives to monitor the events and convey to him what can happen.
One of the Archipelago’s demands was precisely this, international and, specifically, European protection. In a letter to the international community last November 8 and translated into English and French this Thursday, the group recalled that the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with the European Union signed in 2016 recognizes civil society as actors of cooperation.
“As actors of Cuban civil society that we are, we address the citizens of the member countries of the European Union to invite them to be aware of the streets”
“Based on the aforementioned Cooperation Agreement, as Cuban civil society actors that we are, we address the citizens of the member countries of the European Union to invite them to be on the streets next November 15.”
In addition, according to El Mundo, some diplomats will participate as observers in the marches, although it has not revealed the name of any of them and only cites the Spanish Ángel Martín Peccis among those who will not.
The organizers of the march have also received another boost, this time from the United Nations. The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, assured this Thursday that it will make a “remote monitoring” of what happens this Monday.
More of course there was the support of the United States, which has already spoken on numerous occasions on the march of 15N. Yesterday, at the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), Secretary of State Anthony Blinken asked that each country on the continent send a clear message that everyone has the “right to peacefully assemble and express their opinions “.
Blinken recalled that there are still many detainees after the massive protests that occurred in July and that several people have been tried for crimes that carry sentences of dozens of years. “Including a 26-year-old girl named Yolanda Cruz who faces an eight-year prison sentence for filming a protest.”
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