Our deepest solidarity with the Venezuelan government and people, victims of a dangerous act of provocation by the United States government, which seeks to justify military aggression, said the Cuban top diplomat at the Seventh Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends in Defense of the United Nations Charter.

Rodriguez “categorically rejected the growing US military deployment in the Caribbean Sea, which violates the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, the Treaty of Tlatelolco for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in our Region, the Charter of the United Nations, and International Law.”

He warned that it is a direct threat to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and that such a deployment attempts to justify military aggression against that Latin American country.

“This is the same government that, in blatant complicity with Israel, supports and participates in the genocide against the Palestinian people, with its veto in the Security Council and its financial and arms supplies,” the minister emphasized.

It is the regime that imposes an aggressive military and nuclear doctrine on NATO, that constitutes a threat on Russia’s borders, and that has attacked Iranian military facilities protected by international safeguards, he added.

Rodriguez emphasized that the inclusion of Cuba on the unilateral list of states that allegedly sponsor terrorism is an act of aggression. “This measure reinforces the humanitarian and economic impact of the blockade against Cuba, which continues to elicit the repudiation of the international community, under the leadership of this Group,” he stated.

The Cuban Foreign Minister affirmed that the world needs a new international order that is inclusive, plural, and just, one that promotes peace, security, human dignity, and social justice.

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