Havana, Cuba: The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, advocated during the week that ends today for greater solidarity and cooperation among nations to face common challenges, Prensa Latina publishes.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 22, the Cuban head of state called for joint efforts to confront the complex epidemiological situation caused by Covid-19, and the economic crisis that will hit the developing countries.
In that world forum, he explained that the impact of the pandemic goes beyond the health field and causes anguish and despair to leaders and citizens around the world.
He pointed out that decades of an unjust international order and the application of crude and unbridled neoliberalism have aggravated inequalities and sacrificed the right to development of the peoples.
Two days after that meeting at the UN, the head of the Cuban diplomacy raised the need to promote unity, solidarity and complementarity in Latin America and the Caribbean to face the common challenges of the region.
In his speech at the XX Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, also held virtually, he warned that this epidemiological crisis will cause the greatest economic contraction in the history of this geographic area.
United, without exclusions of any kind, complementing each other and sharing the resources within our reach, we can face common challenges in better conditions, he said.
Both leaders condemned the unilateral coercive measures of the United States against several nations, and especially the blockade imposed by that power on this Caribbean island six decades ago, and today the administration of Donald Trump is intensifying despite the almost unanimous international rejection.