[News] BRICS Offers a Real Alternative to Transform the International Order: Cuba's Diaz-Canel

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BRICS Offers a Real Alternative to Transform the International Order:
Diaz-Canel
Carlos Cabrera
July 7, 2025
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Present and future generations deserve a world of peace and security, the
Cuban president stessed.

On Monday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel attended the BRICS leaders’
summit in Brazil.  Specifically, he spoke during the session on
“Environment, COP30, and Global Health,” held in Belem.

>From Brazil, Diaz-Canel argued that the U.S.-controlled international order
perpetuates a structure of domination that reinforces inequality and
poverty in Global South nations. Below is his full speech:

“I must begin by thanking, on behalf of my country and my people, our
inclusion in BRICS as a partner. Today, BRICS represents hope—the hope that
multilateralism can be saved from the chaos and dysfunction into which the
arrogance of a few has plunged the United Nations.

Born 80 years ago to prevent war as a solution to conflicts, the U.N. now
requires deep reforms long demanded by the Global South for over half a
century. This octogenarian institution is dangerously fragmented and
severely threatened by the erosion of multilateralism, heightening risks to
international peace and security.

The horrors of recent weeks and months demonstrate where the diplomacy of
force leads. The U.S. government, wielding its undeniable military,
economic, and financial power—though lacking moral authority—consistently
disregards international law and the U.N. Charter.

It withdraws from international bodies, declares plans to seize and annex
territories, promotes supremacist ideologies, carries out violent and
racist mass deportations of migrants, and no longer hides its self-serving
geopolitical ambitions. This is the same power that backed Israel’s recent
aggression against Iran and directly attacked the Persian nation by bombing
three nuclear facilities.

Cuba reiterates its solidarity with the people and government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran following Israel’s aggression and strongly
condemns the U.S.-led attack. These actions violate the U.N. Charter and
international law, as well as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons.

We also firmly condemn the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people,
perpetrated by Israel with the unwavering political, military, and
financial support of the United States. The U.S. government ensures the
Zionist regime’s impunity and obstructs U.N. Security Council action
through its undemocratic veto power.

A comprehensive, just, and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict is essential to achieving peace in the Middle East, especially at
this critical juncture in international relations. Until this brutality
ends, we remain in the prehistory of what was once envisioned as a hopeful
peace project: the so-called United Nations.

That is why I speak of hope. Against this threatening backdrop, BRICS
emerges—a group whose member and partner nations, despite their vast
differences and disparities in development, advance shared ideals of peace,
dialogue, mutual respect, cooperation, and solidarity.

The group’s commitment to a more just and inclusive international order is
inspiring. Without such an order, sustainable development—long denied to
nations shackled by centuries of colonialism and neocolonialism—will remain
out of reach.

To achieve this, we must fundamentally reform the current international
financial architecture and its opaque, undemocratic institutions, designed
to perpetuate the exclusion and exploitation of Global South nations.
Equally essential is inclusive and democratic governance of artificial
intelligence, ensuring all nations benefit while preventing its use against
peace and international law.

Present and future generations deserve a world of peace and security, where
social justice, cultural and religious pluralism, and democratic access to
science and technology prevail. A world where all human rights are realized
without politicization or double standards, based on cooperation and
respect for each nation’s right to choose its political, economic, and
social system—free from external interference. A world without cruel
blockades or unilateral coercive measures that violate international law.

After six decades of a foreign-imposed economic blockade—repeatedly
tightened with the explicit aim of provoking social unrest—Cuba now faces
another illegal act of imperial overreach.

We arrive at this summit amid news of a new U.S. presidential memorandum
imposing additional coercive measures aimed at suffocating our economy.
This document revives the imperial delusion that outsiders can dictate who
governs our nation and how—all in the name of so-called democracy!

No other country has had to build its social and development project under
the prolonged, cruel, and systematic siege of history’s most powerful
nation. The blockade is an act of aggression, enforced through offensive
extraterritorial measures that violate all nations’ sovereignty. Rooted in
the past, it is unjustifiable and must end.

Unilateral lists and certifications—like Cuba’s baseless designation as a
‘state sponsor of terrorism’—have no place in the 21st century. The U.S.
has no moral authority or international mandate to judge Cuba or any other
nation.

To confront shared challenges, humanity needs no blockades, false
supremacism, or exploitation. What we urgently need is respect for our
differences, more dialogue, cooperation, and integration. We need a renewed
commitment to multilateralism to ensure peaceful coexistence and equitable,
inclusive, and sustainable development for all.

That is why we must nurture and strengthen BRICS—an alliance we join with
the noble aspiration to contribute and learn. In this endeavor, you can
always count on Cuba!”

*teleSUR/ JF *

*Sources: EFE – Cuban Presidency*
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