During the meeting, the vice president of the ANPP and the Council of State, Ana María Mari Machado, thanked her Colombian colleagues for their statements in favor of excluding Cuba from the United States State Department list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
She also expressed her country’s gratitude for the support against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the government of that northern power against the Caribbean nation.
For her part, Senator Gloria Flórez said that this visit will allow the work of the Parliamentary Friendship Group to be reactivated, after observing the Cuban reality these days and being aware of the need to consolidate bilateral ties.
We thank the Cuban people for receiving us as a Parliamentary Friendship Group, from here we talk about Latin American integration, peace and the union of our peoples, increasingly imperative in the current context, said Flórez in her account on the social network X.
Also on that digital platform, the representative to the House Gabriel Becerra highlighted the main results, after the constitution of the Parliamentary Friendship Group in 2022, with the presence in Bogotá of the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez.
Today more than ever, in the face of arbitrariness, we say with (José) Martí that “whoever stands up today with Cuba, stands up for all times” and for all humanity, he said in a message.
Flórez and Becerra lead the GPA with Cuba in both chambers of Congress and visit the island accompanied by legislators María Fernanda Carrascal, Eduard Sarmiento and Alejandro Ocampo, the ANPP said.
The Colombian delegation participated in the Parliamentary Forum for Peace with Sovereignty and Democracy, held in the context of the VI International Conference for the Balance of the World “With all and for the good of all.”
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