Cuba has warned that the recent reports of alleged drones being prepared for attacks on targets at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base and United States territory are completely false and may be used as an excuse to launch pre-emptive military attacks on the island.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said Sunday afternoon that “certain media outlets are playing along, peddling slander and leaking insinuations from the U.S. government itself.”
In the same post, he insisted that “Cuba neither threatens nor wants war.” He added that “without any legitimate pretext, the U.S. government is building, day after day, a fraudulent case to justify the ruthless economic war against the Cuban people and an eventual military aggression.”
Bruno Rodríguez also reiterated that the island has the right to exercise “the legitimate self-defense recognized by the U.N. Charter.”
According to false reports from the U.S., Cuba has supposedly been discussing the possibility of attacks against the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, military facilities and possibly Key West, Florida.
Shortly after the report was published, the Cuban Embassy in the United States shared a message on its X account.
“Like any country, Cuba has the right to defend itself against external aggressions. That is called legitimate self-defense and it is protected by International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.”
The message added that “those in the United States who seek the submission and, in fact, the destruction of the Cuban nation through military aggression and war, do not waste a single moment manufacturing pretexts, creating and spreading falsehoods.”
For his part, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said that “the anti-Cuba effort aimed at justifying, without any excuse whatsoever, a military aggression against Cuba is intensifying by the hour, with increasingly implausible accusations.”
“The United States is the aggressor country. Cuba is the country under attack,” Carlos Fernandez de Cossio added on X.
[SOURCE: teleSUR ]
