Speaker of the National Assembly of People’s Power and President of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba Juan Esteban Lazo Hernandez asked the Federation Council to support his country.
Senators of the Russian Federation adopted a Statement in connection with the Unprecedented Strong-Arm Pressure Policy of the United States against the Republic of Cuba during the 614th session of the Federation Council.
Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin reported on this item.
In his remarks, the senator said that Speaker of parliament of the Island of Freedom, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, asked the Federation Council to support his country.
In the statement, the senators of the Russian Federation expressed their grave concern with the actions by the United States to put in place conditions for staging an armed intervention against the Republic of Cuba and firmly condemned the deployment of a US Navy strike force in the Caribbean for that purpose.
The senators noted that the charges presented by the US Department of Justice against Leader of the Cuban Revolution Army General Raul Castro Ruz constituted an undisguised attempt to blackmail the leadership of the Republic of Cuba.
“The aggressive actions by the United States are totally at odds with the universally recognised principles and norms of international law and the provisions of the UN Charter, while also violating the legitimate rights and freedoms of the Cubans,” Grigory Karasin said.
Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said that the United States has robbed Cuba of at least $165 billion since imposing sanctions on this country. “But if we take into account the lost value of the dollar compared to gold since 1961 when the sanctions were imposed, the damage could reach a trillion dollars,” he pointed out. “It is a matter of repression by the world’s biggest power. This action is illegal and has been condemned by the entire world. It is definitely unworthy of the United States to deprive a small country of its vital resources while blaming the Cuban leadership for this,” the Deputy Speaker went on to say.
In the statement, the senators of the Russian Federation reaffirmed their firm support for the people of Cuba and the country’s leadership in their courageous effort to defend national sovereignty, freedom and independence, as well as the legitimate demands to put an end to strong-arm politics by the United States.
“The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation declares that the illegal US economic, trade, financial and energy blockade of Cuba must be lifted. The Russian Federation senators emphasise the traditionally friendly relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Cuba. The Russian Federation will continue to strengthen friendship and foster mutual assistance and bilateral cooperation with the Republic of Cuba,” the statement reads.
“The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation calls on the United Nations Organisation, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and other international parliamentary organisations, as well as the parliaments of foreign states to condemn the unprecedented coercive US pressure on the Republic of Cuba, to call for the unconditional lifting of the US economic, trade, financial and energy blockade of the Republic of Cuba, and demand that Washington immediately stop its aggressive policy towards the Island of Freedom.”
The statement will be sent to the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Arab Parliament, the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, Mercosur Parliament, the Central American Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament, the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, and foreign parliaments.