Summit of Peoples demands the removal of Cuba from the list on terrorism

Havana, July 12 (RHC) In a declaration of principles, the Brussels-2023 People's Summit this Wednesday demanded that the United States remove Cuba from its unilateral list of countries that sponsor terrorism.

The forum that will meet on July 17 and 18 considered that this claim should be expressed by the Summit that the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will hold on the same days in Brussels.

In this regard, the organization stressed the importance of the bi-regional meeting condemning and making concrete decisions to combat the blockades and unilateral coercive measures imposed on sovereign States of Latin America and the Caribbean.

In January 2021, just a few days before leaving the White House, the then President Donald Trump included the island on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, a mechanism that does not have any international endorsement and that generates global rejection.

Without credible arguments, the current US president, Joseph Biden, has kept Cuba on the unilateral list, despite his electoral promises to reverse Trump's aggressiveness towards the largest of the Antilles, expressed in 243 measures aimed at intensifying the blockade.

The People's Summit advocated in its declaration of principles for relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean that bury any hegemonic and colonialist position, and put an end to the militaristic and interventionist escalation in the countries of the South, ties based on International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.

In the UN General Assembly, the blockade imposed by Washington on the Caribbean island for more than six decades has received an almost unanimous rejection in the last 30 years, precisely for ignoring the Charter of the multilateral entity and International Law, as well as because of its extraterritorial nature.

The text signed by more than a hundred social, trade union, cultural and political organizations also calls on the European Union and CELAC to make a common front against the illegal application of extraterritorial measures that violate human rights.

Also related to Cuba, the Summit of the Peoples denounced the decision of the United States to reactivate the automatic annulment of the application to the Electronic Visa Authorization System for citizens of both continents who have visited Cuba, an action framed in the measure of designating the island as a sponsor of terrorism. (Source: PL)