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<span data-entity-ref="preheader">Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno RodrÃguez
Parrilla, in the General Debate of the High Level
Segment of the United Nations General Assembly. New
York, September 21, 2022</span>
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by the
Minister of
Foreign
Affairs of the
Republic of
Cuba, Bruno
RodrÃguez
Parrilla, in
the General
Debate of the
High Level
Segment of the
United Nations
General
Assembly. New
York,
September 21,
2022 </span></div>
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font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Delegates:</span></div>
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<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
impact of the
COVID-19
pandemic has
exposed, as
never before,
the true
essence of the
unjust and
unsustainable
prevailing
international
order.</span></div>
<div><br>
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<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Humanity
never had this
formidable
scientific-technical
potential, nor
this
extraordinary
capacity to
generate
wealth and
well-being,
and yet, never
before has the
world been so
unequal and
inequality so
profound.</span></div>
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<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Eight
hundred and
twenty-eight
million
people, 10% of
the world's
population,
suffer from
hunger, and
about 50
million
children
suffer from
wasting, the
deadliest form
of
malnutrition.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Unemployment
will affect
207 million
people in
2022, 21
million more
than in 2019.
In the middle
of the fourth
industrial
revolution,
773 million
human beings
do not know
how to read or
write.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">About
6.5 million
people have
died due to
the COVID-19
pandemic.
Vaccines to
deal with it
are
inaccessible
to a billion
people in
low-income
countries. In
2021,
pharmaceutical
transnationals
earned $84,588
million.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
foreign debt
has been paid
several times,
but it
multiplies.
Paradoxically,
global
military
spending is
growing
rapidly and
exceeds two
billion
dollars for
the first
time.</span></div>
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<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">There
is no
justification
for humanity
to continue to
be threatened
by the
existence of
almost 13,000
nuclear
weapons. We
advocate for
the
universality
of the Treaty
on the
Prohibition of
Nuclear
Weapons.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">How
much more
could we do if
these
resources were
used to
promote health
and
development?
How many
deaths from
COVID-19 and
other causes
could have
been avoided?
How many
children would
be saved from
hunger and
preventable or
curable
diseases?</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Mr.
President:</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Greenhouse
gases recorded
record
concentrations
in 2021, and
it will be the
same in 2022.
The average
sea level has
reached a new
high. The last
seven years
are the
warmest ever
registered.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
can't continue
ignoring the
alarms that
warn about the
imminent
climate
catastrophe.
We have only
one Earth, the
only home of
all, rich and
poor. We have
to act without
further delay.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
"philosophy of
war and
dispossession,"
and the
irrational
patterns of
production and
consumption of
capitalism,
denounced by
President
Fidel Castro,
will lead to
catastrophe.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">International
relations are
on a very
dangerous
path. The
American
offensive
aimed at
subjugating
States through
economic,
military and
political-diplomatic
threat and
coercion, to
subject them
to an order
based on their
capricious
rules,
together with
the expansion
of NATO and
the
development of
an aggressive
doctrine and
the
fifth-generation
unconventional
war,
inevitably
lead to a
climate of
tension and
conflict, the
consequences
of which are
unpredictable.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Mr.
President:</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Cuba,
a small island
developing
state, has
paid a high
price for
defending its
legitimate
right to exist
as a sovereign
and
independent
nation.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">For
more than six
decades we
have resisted
a ruthless and
unilateral
economic,
commercial and
financial
blockade that
has
intensified to
extreme
extent, at
unprecedented
levels since
2019 and
during the
pandemic.</span></div>
<div><br>
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<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Thirty
years after
the first
resolution of
this Assembly
against the
blockade, the
Government of
the United
States
continues to
ignore the
almost
unanimous
demand of the
international
community to
cease its
illegal and
cruel policy
against Cuba.</span></div>
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<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
effort
persists to
generate
material
shortages,
scarcity,
suffering, sow
discouragement, dissatisfaction and cause damage to the Cuban people.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
Government of
the United
States
reinforces the
pressures on
governments,
banking
institutions
and companies
around the
world
interested in
interacting
with Cuba, and
obsessively
pursues all
sources of
income and
entry of
foreign
currency into
the country,
to provoke
economic
collapse.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">As
a result, the
Cuban economy
has
experienced
extraordinary
pressures,
which are
manifested in
industry, the
provision of
services, the
shortage of
food and
medicine and
the
deterioration
of the level
of consumption
and general
well-being of
the
population.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
human damage
that this
policy
generates for
all Cuban
families,
impossible to
quantify, is
enormous,
cruel and
immoral.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
blockade is an
act of
economic war
in peacetime.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
current
Government of
the United
States
maintains the
most
aggressive
pressure
measures
against our
country
adopted by
President
Donald Trump's
government.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
unjustified
inclusion of
Cuba in the
arbitrary and
unilateral
list issued by
the State
Department of
countries that
are supposed
to sponsor
terrorism
continues.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">This
slanderous
rating imposes
a stigma on
our entities
and
institutions,
and makes
financial and
commercial
transactions
extremely
difficult, and
the
possibilities
of payments
and credits.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Cuba,
which has been
a victim of
state
terrorism,
never promotes
and will never
promote
terrorism. On
the contrary,
we condemn it
in all its
forms and
manifestations.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
United States
Government
deals with
opportunism
with high
sensitivity
issues such as
terrorism,
religion,
democracy,
justice,
corruption and
human rights.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Double
standards,
incoherence,
selectivity,
political
manipulation,
damage the
cause of human
rights.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
previous
speech of the
Czech Foreign
Minister, who
does not dare
to mention the
crime of the
blockade of
Cuba, is a sad
example.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
have clearly
warned the
Government of
the United
States that
the factors
that encourage
irregular
migration and
cause loss of
life must be
solved, such
as the
failure, on
its part,
since 2017, of
its
obligation,
according to
the bilateral
agreements in
force, to
grant no less
than 20,000
visas per year
for migrants;
the existence
of the Cuban
Adjustment
Act,
privileged
treatment with
political
motivation,
restrictive
pressures on
regular
transit
countries and
the reinforced
economic
blockade.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Today's
announcement
that the
processing of
migrant visas
will return to
the United
States Embassy
in Havana, is
a positive
step.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Cuba
reiterates its
willingness to
move towards a
better
understanding
with the
Government of
the United
States, and to
develop
civilized and
even
cooperative
relations
between the
two countries,
on the basis
of mutual
respect,
sovereign
equality, and
without
prejudice to
our
independence
and</span></div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">sovereignty,
despite
profound
differences.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
highlight the
valuable
commitment and
recent
demonstrations
by Cubans and
descendants of
Cubans in all
latitudes and
in this
country, of
respect for
Cuba's
sovereign
rights, and
the rejection
of the
ruthless
aggression of
the United
States, in
particular the
economic
blockade.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">I
also deeply
appreciate the
statements of
Heads of State
and Government
in this
general
debate, the
historical
support of
this Assembly
and the
expressions of
solidarity
with Cuba by
governments,
personalities,
political
organizations
and
solidarity,
social and
popular
movements
around the
world.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Today,
that
solidarity and
support are
still
essential.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Mr.
President:</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Despite
the enormous
challenges,
the Cuban
people and
government
have not
ceased in
their efforts
to advance in
the
construction
of a more
just,
democratic,
prosperous and
sustainable
socialist
society.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
defeated
COVID-19 with
resources, our
own vaccines,
and the
strength of
our Public
Health and
science
system. We
were able to
collaborate
modestly with
the sending of
58 medical
brigades, at
the worst
moment of the
pandemic, to
42 countries
and
territories.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
work to
recover the
economic and
social life of
the country;
support the
transformation
of our
communities,
and sustain
and expand
social
programs.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
continue to
improve our
legal system,
of our
socialist
state of law
and social
justice, to
ensure the
full enjoyment
of all human
rights for all
Cuban women
and men, and
to enrich the
social justice
system that
several
generations
have enjoyed.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">On
September 25,
after an
extensive
process of
participation
and popular
consultation,
the
legislative
referendum on
a novel and
inclusive
Families Code
will take
place. It will
be an exercise
of genuine
direct
democracy and
effective
power of the
Cuban people.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Mr.
President:</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
"unity in
diversity"
proposed by
then President
Raúl Castro,
is possible in
the countries
of the South
and the
Community of
Latin American
and Caribbean
States, which
is becoming
increasingly
strengthened,
and is
creating the
conditions for
our region to
move towards
higher forms
of integration
and
cooperation,
based on the
postulates of
the
Proclamation
of Latin
America and
the Caribbean
as a Zone of
Peace.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
appreciate the
dignified
position taken
by several
countries in
our region in
the face of
arbitrary
exclusions in
hemispheric
forums.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
renew our
support and
solidarity
with the
Bolivarian
Republic of
Venezuela, its
constitutional
president,
Nicolás Maduro
Moros, and the
civic-military
unity of its
people, in the
face of
attempts to
destabilize
and subvert
the internal
order of that
sister
country. We
reject the
application of
unilateral
coercive
measures
against
Venezuela.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
denounce the
imperialist
attempts to
destabilize
the Government
of
Reconciliation
and National
Unity of
Nicaragua. We
reiterate our
firm support
for the sister
Nicaraguan
people and its
president,
Daniel Ortega.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
stand in
solidarity
with the
Caribbean
sisters and
support their
legitimate
demand for
reparation for
the harmful
effects of
colonialism
and slavery.
They need and
deserve to
receive fair,
special and
differentiated
treatment.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
reaffirm our
historic
commitment to
self-determination and independence of the people of Puerto Rico.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Haiti
needs a
special
contribution
from the
international
community for
its
reconstruction
and
development.
Humanity owes
a debt to that
founding
Republic.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
support the
legitimate
claim of
President
Alberto
Fernández and
the people, of
the
sovereignty of
the Republic
of Argentina
over the
Falkland
Islands, South
Sandwich and
South Georgia,
and the
surrounding
maritime
spaces.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
express our
total
solidarity
with the
Argentine vice
president,
Cristina
Fernández de
Kirchner, who,
victim of
unjust and
unfounded
judicial and
media
harassment,
recently
suffered a
vile
assassination
attempt.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
reiterate our
firm
commitment to
peace in
Colombia. The
manifest
readiness for
peace of the
current
President
Gustavo Petro,
and the
parties
concerned,
deserve the
support of the
region and the
international
community.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">The
necessary
resources must
be provided to
support the
Agenda 2063 of
the African
Union, which
sets out the
road map for
the
development of
that sister
continent.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
advocate the
search for a
peaceful and
negotiated
solution to
the imposed
situation on
Syria, and we
demand the
cessation of
external
interference
and full
respect for
its
sovereignty
and
territorial
integrity.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
support a
just,
comprehensive,
and lasting
solution to
the Middle
East conflict,
which
guarantees the
real exercise
of the
inalienable
right of the
Palestinian
people to
build their
own state
within the
pre-1967
borders, with
their capital
in East
Jerusalem, and
the end of the
Israeli
occupation of
the occupied
Palestinian
and Arab
territories.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
reaffirm our
invariable
solidarity
with the
Saharawi
people.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
reject the
unilateral
coercive
measures
imposed on the
Islamic
Republic of
Iran.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
condemn the
imposition of
unjust
unilateral
economic
measures
against the
Democratic
People's
Republic of
Korea and
external
interference
in its
affairs.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
oppose
interference
in the
internal
affairs of the
Republic of
Belarus.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
reaffirm our
rejection of
the imposition
of unilateral
sanctions
against the
Russian
Federation.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
condemn the
unfounded
campaigns of
discredit
against the
People's
Republic of
China and the
attempts to
damage its
territorial
integrity and
sovereignty.
We reiterate
our unwavering
support for
the One China
principle.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
advocate a
serious,
constructive
and realistic
diplomatic
solution to
the current
war in
Ukraine, by
peaceful means
and in
accordance
with the rules
of
international
law, which
guarantees the
security and
sovereignty of
all.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Mr.
President:</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Cuba
will continue
to raise its
voice to
reject
domination and
hegemony,
unilateral
coercive
measures,
genocidal
blockades and
the intention
to impose one
culture and
one model on
the world.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">We
will never
renounce the
defense of the
independence,
sovereignty
and
self-determination
of peoples,
without
foreign
interference
or
intervention.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">For
our glorious
past, for the
present and
future of the
new
generations of
Cubans, with
the leadership
of President
Miguel
DÃaz-Canel, we
will resist
creatively and
fight
tirelessly
until we
achieve our
dreams of
peace and
development,
with equity
and social
justice for
Cuba and for
the world.</span></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span
style="font-size:
15px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family:
Arial,
Verdana,
Helvetica,
sans-serif;">Thank
you very much.</span></div>
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