The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, exchanged praise and promises of support this Thursday with officials of the Cuban regime. Chinawhere he traveled as a special envoy of Miguel Díaz-Canel.
To his counterpart in the Asian nation, Wang Yi, he expressed that Havana “sincerely thanks” the Chinese regime “for its firm support to resist” the US embargo which he described as “unjustified” and which the regime blames for the precariousness in which it has plunged Cubans and the economic crisis it has generated with its failed policies.
However, the United States is the sixth country with the highest volume of exports to the Island, as revealed by the Cuban Statistical Yearbook for 2022, with figures made public by the state National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).
As quoted by the state agency Xinhua, the Cuban Foreign Minister also thanked Chinese help to “overcome temporary difficulties in the economic operation” and promised that Havana “will continue to firmly adhere to the one-China principle.”
“Cuba is willing to work with China to build a Cuba-China community with a shared future, give top priority to the joint construction of the Belt and Road and safeguard the sovereignty and independence of developing countries, as well as the cause of socialism. “said Rodríguez Parrilla.
The Chinese minister affirmed that both countries, governed by communist dictatorships, are “good friends who trust each other, good comrades who share the same vision and good brothers who share joys and sorrows,” as quoted by the Xinhua agency. .
The member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China added that the two sides reached an important consensus on the joint construction of a China-Cuba community with a shared future.
Wang Yi said that the Chinese regime “praises Cuba’s adherence to truth and defiance of power, and appreciates that Cuba always defends China’s legitimate position on international multilateral occasions.”
In dialogue with the Vice Prime Minister, He Lifeng, Rodríguez Parrilla reiterated the Island’s support and adherence to the global initiatives that, from China, “promote the development of the Global South,” as quoted by the official media. Granma.
Part of Chinese support for the Cuban regime is the 20,000 tons of rice promised to alleviate hunger on the island and partially compensate for the failure of government policies to produce food.
This week, 1,580 of those 20,000 tons arrived on the Island and Rodríguez Parrilla thanked the president of the Chinese International Cooperation Agency, Luo Zhaohui.
Rodríguez Parrilla’s visit to China will extend until June 9. From there, The Cuban minister will leave for Russia, where he will attend a ministerial meeting of the BRICS group and meet with his counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, reported at a press conference this Friday.
In Russia, the head of the Cuban MINREX will be from June 10 to 12. On the last date, he will meet with Lavrov, to address “a further strengthening of the strategic partnership in the political, economic-commercial, scientific-technical, cultural, humanitarian and other fields,” according to the Spanish agency EFE quoting the Russian spokesperson. .
But first, both Foreign Ministers will meetThe BRICS meeting, which will take place in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on June 10 and 11 and which Lavrov plans to attend.
This Thursday, Lavrov announced the future introduction of the category of partner countries in the bloc, in addition to full members. This announcement, reproduced by the Cuban state agency Prensa Latina, could open the doors of the bloc to the Cuban Government as a partner.
“The category of partner countries will be introduced, it will have to be presented in detail in terms of the criteria and countries that can qualify for this rank. Now that we hold the presidency, we pay great attention to the task of initiating newbies in the already existing forms and the traditions of the BRICS,” the Russian state agency Sputnik quoted Lavrov as saying.
Information about the arrival of Rodríguez Parrilla to Russia to strengthen “the strategic alliance” comes to light a day after the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) of Cuba announced that next week A group of ships from the Russian Navy will arrive in Havanaaccompanied by a nuclear submarine.
The ideas laboratory Cuba Siglo 21 warned this Thursday that its own sources assured it that The Havana regime “has asked Putin for a military presence Russian nuclear this summer” to shore up the probable increase in repression, inevitable given the worsening of the crisis and the social outbreak that may ensue.
