On International Human Rights Day, Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, reiterated the demand to end the United States’ economic, financial, and commercial blockade, which he described as a genocidal plan against the Cuban people.
Through his account on the social network X, the president stated that, for more than six decades, this policy has aimed to subjugate the dignified Cuban people through hunger and deprivation.
“On Human Rights Day, we once again demand an end to the genocidal plan of the US against Cuba: more than six decades of economic, financial, and commercial blockade designed to subdue the dignified Cuban people through hunger and deprivation.”
For his part, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs, reaffirmed the country’s commitment to the full dignity of the human being and its promotion, protection, and respect.
“Cuba will continue to comply with the provisions of the 44 human rights instruments to which it is a State Party,” the Minister wrote, adding that the Cuban Revolution will continue to prioritize social justice, with universal and free access to education, health, culture, and sports as fundamental rights.
“On Human Rights Day, we reaffirm Cuba’s commitment to the full dignity of every human being and to its promotion, protection, and respect. To this end, Cuba will continue to comply with the provisions of the 44 human rights instruments to which it is a State Party. The Cuban Revolution will continue to prioritize social justice, with universal and free access to education, health, culture, and sports as fundamental rights.”
On the same social media platform, the official account of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted that the Cuban Revolution represented the historical turning point that guaranteed, for the first time, the full exercise of the civil, political, economic, and social rights of our people.
December 10th marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
(ACN)
