The program of the Cuban President in Brussels culminates in bilateral meetings – Escambray

Diaz-Canel offered another intense day of work in the Belgian capital, which hosted a two-day EU-CELAC forum.

The President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, concluded his stay in Brussels on Tuesday with several meetings in the context of the third EU-CELAC summit, including with the Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Barcena.

In another intense day of work in the Belgian capital, which hosted a two-day European Union (EU) and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) forum, the president also spoke with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Volker Turk.

He also met German Chancellor Olaf Schultz, with whom he shared his interest in strengthening and expanding bilateral economic, trade and cooperative relations.

Before that, Diaz-Canel intervened in the plenary session of heads of state and government at the summit, with a call to build better relations on both sides of the Atlantic for the benefit of the peoples.

The distinguished man lived several emotional moments in Brussels, especially his meeting with solidarity and the Cuban population and his attendance on Monday of a political-cultural festival of the People’s Summit, which was held in parallel with the EU-CELAC summit.

On the evening of social movements and progressive forces in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the president defended the island’s right to advance on its own path, without foreign interference.

In the same way, he thanked the solidarity with Cuba and expressed the urgency of betting on a new international order in which this attitude and cooperation would dominate.

He stressed that solidarity cannot be stopped like food, medicine and equipment, as it is a weapon of struggle that cannot be destroyed and a message of peace.

EU-CELAC summit rejects the embargo imposed on Cuba and its extension of regional borders

The third summit of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) culminated on Tuesday in Brussels with a final declaration rejecting the US blockade against Cuba and its extraterritorial nature.

In this sense, he refers to the last resolution adopted in the United Nations General Assembly, last November, on the need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the Caribbean country for more than six decades.

Likewise, the declaration includes obstacles to financial dealings with Al Jazeera as a result of its inclusion in Washington’s unilateral list of state sponsors of terrorism.

The text approved by the two-day forum expresses the commitment of the two regions to renewing and strengthening relations between them “on the basis of common values ​​and interests and on strong economic, social and cultural ties.”

The EU-CELAC Summit, representing 60 countries and 1 billion people, emphasized the desire to work together to be stronger in the face of current challenges, including food insecurity, poverty, inequality and economic crisis.

On another point, the document calls for favoring friendship relations between the peoples of Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, regardless of the differences in their political systems.

With regard to the conflict in Ukraine, it reflects deep concern about human suffering and the difficulties it entails for the global economy, a situation that calls for a just and lasting peace.

The war in Ukraine raised tensions in the forum, based on the European position of trying to involve Latin America and the Caribbean in the crusade against Russia, without taking into account CELAC’s declaration of the region as a peace zone in 2014, during its second summit. .

The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, speaking at the official closing of the Peoples’ Summit, the meeting held in parallel, emphasized that the EU’s only interest was to address the conflict.