Havana, July 17 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez today defined the preservation of independence, the defense of the Revolution, and socialism as one of the priorities of Cuban foreign policy.
Rodríguez identified as a second priority for the country the search for options that will accelerate economic recovery, advance development, and address the fundamental problems that create suffering, hardship, shortages, and deprivation for Cuban families.
This was stated by the highest representative of Cuban diplomacy in a meeting with the press, in the context of the Fifth Ordinary Session of the National Assembly, which is meeting in this capital.
The foreign minister explained that the issue that fundamentally impacts the country’s progress and the well-being of its citizens is the blockade imposed by the United States for more than 60 years and Cuba’s presence on the list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism.
“Therefore, a very important foreign policy priority is precisely the search for options for exports, imports, investments, financial relations, and international cooperation in the development of our country’s external economy,” he added.
He emphasized that the deputies, when debating the country’s foreign policy guidelines, agreed that the sector’s priorities align with those of the National Assembly.
Rodríguez emphasized the importance of continuing and enhancing Cuba’s leadership in the international arena, in the Group of 77 and China, in the Non-Aligned Movement, in representing and promoting the interests of the countries of the South, as well as in its militant support for the legitimate and just causes of the peoples.
He also emphasized the importance of popular participation in the design and implementation of foreign policy and its development; “based on the principle that it is a revolutionary, popular foreign policy, (…), a revolution of the humble, with the humble, and for the humble.”
At the time, Johana Tablada, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry’s U.S. Directorate, emphasized that the Cuban people are the inspiration for the diplomats’ work.
It is the inspiration and the main mobilizer, the diplomat emphasized, “because when people around the world know what is happening, what they are doing to us, and how we continue working, that becomes the driving force of that solidarity, the driving force of the attitude of the countries that raise their hands to assist the people of Cuba.”
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