In connection with the holding of this Tuesday’s debate about the blockade at the UN General Assembly at its headquarters, the Foreign Minister wrote on his social network account X: “We will defend our sovereign right to live without energy siege, external asphyxiation, coercion, threats of bloodshed, and without collective punishment.”
In a message posted on his microblogging platform account, Rodriguez reported about his presence in New York this July 7 “to participate in a session of the United Nations General Assembly on the need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against #Cuba”.
The US government is trying to prevent the UN General Assembly from speaking out, he wrote, and thus “pressuring governments and seeking to coerce the sovereign will of member states,” he warned.
“But the voice of the people cannot be blocked,” added the CubanForeign Minister, who urged “to accompany this debate. Let us defend the UN Charter, peace and sovereign equality among nations.” Cuba is not a threat. The blockade is, he concluded.
When announcing last week this plenary session Cuba’s request, the top Cuban diplomat denounced that US multidimensional aggression against the island “does not consist in a danger to come or a future threat, it is a crime against humanity in full execution.”
The fuel blockade and other measures of extreme intensification of the blockade are “an act of genocide also characterized as collective punishment and a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of Cuban women and men and international humanitarian law”, he emphasized during a press conference in Havana.
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