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Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla held a press conference before national and international media, where he referred to the aggressive foreign policy of the United States government against the Island. Our correspondent, Belen De Los Santos, has more details.  teleSUR  #cuba #unitedstates  These and many more stories now!

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00:00Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla held a press conference before national and international media

00:07where he referred to the aggressive foreign policy of the United States government against the island.

00:12Our correspondent Belén de los Santos has more details.

00:16This Wednesday morning the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla

00:21called on the national and international media with one objective.

00:26We are just one week away from another voting at the UN General Assembly

00:31on the resolution that calls for the lifting of the economic blockade on Cuba.

00:37A voting that happens year after year with an overwhelming majority in support of Cuba.

00:43In this context, Cuba is denouncing a U.S. campaign that is trying to pressure other states to change their vote.

00:50It has a fraudulent approach that on one side they try to prove, and it's one of the subtitles,

01:02the Cuban regime does not deserve your support.

01:06It's directed to governments that always have voted for decades, some with over 30 years,

01:16in favor of the elimination of the blockade, of the reestablishment of international law,

01:26the end of a crime, of a crime of genocide, in the framework of the corresponding convention,

01:38and that as an overwhelming majority of the member states of the United Nations,

01:44that reflects also the thinking and position, overwhelmingly in a majority,

01:52of U.S. citizens that are the ones paying the emissors, the U.S. diplomats,

01:58that are involved in this management that also reflect the majority opinion of Cubans

02:08that live in the United States, all of which at the same time are victims

02:13of this aggression policy and hostilities and blockade.

02:20In this way, Cuba is presenting the evidence and the information of this campaign,

02:25in which the United States, through two letters directed at governments from Europe and Latin America,

02:31is trying to change their vote, veiling threats of possible consequences

02:36if they do not follow the U.S. interests.

02:39This is just a pressure campaign, they say.

02:42It does not feel the need to argue in seriousness with the government.

02:49They believe that the brutal pressure and actual threats are more than enough.

02:54I read the document and I realize that they don't really want to convince anyone,

03:00they only want to intimidate and pressure.

03:03It is not the blockade, the cause of issues, of problems of the Cuban economy.

03:09I have proven with data and I am willing to do so again.

03:16We are willing to debate on this issue.

03:20Experts are also willing to do this, Cuban experts,

03:23in our economy to show that the blockade is the main cause of the issues of our economy

03:32and the main obstacle for our development.

03:37Among the evidence presented, not only were the two letters sent by the United States,

03:43but also a media campaign of disinformation trying to link Cuba with different schemes around the world

03:51that have no evidence.

03:53For example, media campaigns that have tried to link Cuba to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine,

03:59or also to drug trafficking in the region.

04:02Just schemes that are completely baseless, but are dangerous, the Cuban minister has said,

04:08because we've seen the United States at this moment use these narratives,

04:12these false narratives, in order to justify, for example, military aggressions in the Caribbean.

04:17That is what is happening at this moment, but Cuba is confident that another vote is coming

04:23and another vote will be of an overwhelming majority in order to lift the blockade.

04:28Cuba is saying that the United States is just trying to shift the conversation against

04:33and away from the actual topic.

04:36And the actual topic is the constant aggression that the U.S. continues to maintain year after year

04:43with the blockade against the Cuban people.

Cuban FM | “The U.S. govt. doesn't want to convince, only to intimidate and pressure”

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