Cuba accused the US of double standards and a policy of state terrorism
The US uses double standards, accusing other countries of violating human rights and sponsoring terrorism while doing so themselves.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla stated this while speaking at the UN General Assembly, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Cuban diplomat recalled that the United States has unreasonably added Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism and is blocking international trade of the “islands of freedom.”
“The US government continues to ignore the demands of all of you to end its illegal and cruel policies against Cuba. There is a desire to create dissatisfaction, food shortages, problems for the Cuban people. The United States government is putting pressure on various financial institutions, international companies that are interested in working with Cuba, and to collapse the economy, they are closing all avenues of foreign exchange earnings.
The Cuban government and the Cuban people have experienced terrible times: shortages of medicine, food, and consumer goods. The human cost of this policy on all Cuban families is enormous. This is cruel and immoral. And the blockade is an instrument of economic warfare in peacetime,” the Cuban said.
“The US government is using instruments of pressure of the most aggressive kind against the government of my country, and continues to unjustifiably include Cuba in the unilateral lists that the State Department is preparing, a list of countries that are supporters of terrorism. This places a stigma on our financial institutions, our companies and makes cross-border transactions, payments and lending extremely difficult.
Cuba is a victim of state terrorism; it has never contributed and will never contribute to the spread of terrorism. The US government is opportunistically manipulating a very sensitive topic. Such as terrorism, religion, democracy, justice, corruption and human rights, double standards, selectivity, manipulation in politics are detrimental to human rights work,” Parrilla said.
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