In an interview broadcast by Mexican television channel 14, the deputy foreign minister pointed out that, naturally, “it would entail having to recognize that Cuba is indeed a sovereign state” to which it has rights and the prerogatives of self-determination.

“If the United States were only capable of doing that, I believe there could be a relationship, and if it were capable of addressing the interests, I would say strategic and that really concern the whole of the American Union, the United States society,” he said.

He alluded to the existence of people who have made a political career and have enriched themselves with the business of hostility against the island, but “they do not necessarily represent the sentiment” of the Cuban community there, nor of the majority of the American society.

The vice-foreign minister expressed his conviction that if the majority of the people of that American nation were duly informed and fully aware of the nature of the policy of the government of that country against Cuba, of the damage it causes to the population, they would openly oppose it.

Regarding the position of the Trump administration towards the island, he pointed out the presence of a great influence of anti-Cuban sectors, and despite the fact that there has not been an open, declared pronouncement, they have already taken actions.

Among these, in addition to the ironclad maintenance of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by Washington, is the inclusion once again of the Antille nation in the unilateral list of states that allegedly sponsor terrorism.

At another point in the conversation, Fernandez de Cossio mentioned the aggressiveness against the island by the current US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

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