Cuba strongly rejects US manipulation over human rights issue

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Cuba rejects the US manipulation over human rights issue and its use as a tool for the aggressive policy on the Caribbean nation, Cuba´s Foreign Ministry reaffirmed.

According to the Director General of the United States Issues Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Washington unscrupulously takes advantage of such a sensitive issue to attack governments that defend the sovereign right of their peoples to self-determination.

Statement by the Cuban Academy of Sciences on the report “An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies” by (NASEM)

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The Standing Committee created by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), has released in December 2020 the report “An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies”. The illness in the title refers primarily to health complaints reported by US personnel deployed in Cuba and to a lesser degree in China. The present document summarizes the Cuban Academy of Sciences’ initial assessment of the Standing Committee’ report, based on the work of a panel of Cuban experts that has spent more than two years investigating the complaints and informed by international experts including those who participated in the workshop Is there a Havana Syndrome? aptly held in Havana in March 2020.

Statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

Good afternoon:

As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs timely informed, around 2 o’clock today, that is, in the early hours in the morning of today, Thursday, April 30, 2020, a terrorist attack was perpetrated against the embassy of the Republic of Cuba to the United States in Washington. An unidentified individual shot at the building of the Cuban embassy in the US using an assault rifle.

What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world — and how Cuba came out on top.

 

 

 

 

From:The Independent.

In a sign of true global solidarity, Cuba today allowed MS Braemer, a British cruise ship, to dock on its shores despite having at least five confirmed coronavirus cases on board and another 52 passengers displaying symptoms. The ship, with over 600 mainly British passengers, had no Cuban nationals on board but had requested help from both Cuba and the US.

Cuba acted without self-interest. The ship had been anchored in the Caribbean over the last five days as it frantically searched for a place to dock. Diplomats from the British Foreign Office had urged US officials to allow the ship to dock on American soil but were met with obstacles. Cuban officials instead accepted the request, stating that there must be “a shared effort to confront and stop the spread of the pandemic”. After all, these are still humans suffering, regardless of the passport they hold.