Cuba participates in the hemispheric meeting on regular routes for labor migration
Mexico City, June 25, 2024.- Cuba participates in the hemispheric meeting on regular routes for labor migration that is taking place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country on June 25 and 26.
The delegation, headed by the Deputy Director General of Consular Affairs and Cubans Living Abroad of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Laura Pujol Torres, expressed that regular, orderly and safe mobility that at the same time responds to national priorities, is the goal that We should all aim for it, but we are far, very far from conquering it.
Pujol Torres stressed that despite the contribution of sending remittances to migrant-sending economies, in reality, in the long term, the draining of labor force and highly qualified personnel from our countries creates serious difficulties in mitigating the expulsion factors and contributing to reverse the unjust international economic order, indisputable and truly great causes of these phenomena.
For Cuba, the path to solving this problem involves a less asymmetric relationship between the receiving and sending countries of migrants. The practices of attracting irregular migration must be discarded, as well as the application of unilateral coercive measures against countries in the region, which, like Cuba, suffer from an economic, commercial and financial blockade for more than 60 years, to which is added the unfair and contrary to international law, the United States Government’s placement of our country on the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, all of which increases the economic difficulties at the origin of these migratory flows.
At the event, the Cuban delegation pointed out that work must also be done to create the conditions so that people who migrate can diversify the ways of giving back to their country of origin, whether through cultural remittance, project management and investment strategies. , scientific development and local development, among others.
Dialogue, cooperation and political will must be the way, stated the head of the delegation.
The delegation was also composed of the Ambassador of Cuba in Mexico Marcos Rodríguez Costa, Dennis Casares, specialist from the Directorate of International Affairs and International Law and Luis López González, 2nd Secretary of the Embassy of Cuba.
(Cubaminrex-Embacuba Mexico)
