The permanent representative of Venezuela to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, affirmed this Tuesday that Cuba is a country that loves peace and International Law, when speaking at the 80th period of sessions of the General Assembly.
In his speech before the plenary session, the Bolivarian diplomat denounced that since the implementation of the economic, commercial and financial blockade by Washington more than 60 years ago against Havana, International Law is being violated.
He stated that this is a “criminal blockade” against the sister Republic of Cuba, a free and independent nation, sovereign and a full member of this General Assembly, he added.
Moncada affirmed that this siege continues to cause “deep losses exceeding five billion dollars annually,” with the consequent enormous suffering in the health, education, access to energy and food sectors of the Cuban people.
The accumulation of economic suffocation imposed from outside for generations is the equivalent of the destruction caused by a war, the ambassador declared.
In this sense, he stressed that this US policy is “an act of economic war that seeks to render an entire people to hunger, disease and death.”
This is the truth that they want to hide when they call this crime “a simple political measure,” he said.
The diplomat denounced that in the last year the United States tried to stain the international solidarity of the Cuban people “with a discredit campaign against medical cooperation programs”, the same ones that saved millions of lives in multiple corners of the world during the worst stage of Covid-19.
While some send bombs and weapons as part of their war strategy, Cuba, he said, “sends doctors and that is why they attack it,” because their example unmasks the hypocrisy of those who claim to defend freedom, while they blockade nations and approve the genocide of entire peoples.
Moncada referred to the campaign that seeks to link the island with the conflict in Ukraine and asserted that nothing could be more false and compared it to “pure maneuver to confuse the international community”, coming from the media laboratories of the US State Department.
The Bolivarian representative affirmed that Cuba “has been, is and will continue to be a peace-loving country, respectful of International Law, and everyone knows it.”
He considered that among the most immoral attacks against the island is its inclusion in the unilateral list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism and stressed that this decision has no basis and constitutes “an insult to historical truth.”
He stressed that Cuba does not sponsor terrorism, it has suffered it first-hand with attacks, sabotage and covert operations, organized in the United States, where state terrorism is a policy, he assured.
Finally, he demanded the immediate removal of Havana from that list that “offends reason and justice, and expressed that voting for Cuba tomorrow is “voting for justice, peace and life.
