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Articles / Policy & Gov't. / Official Notes / Statement by the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Coup d’ état Attempt in Ecuador
Friday, October 1, 2010
Statement by the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Coup d’ état Attempt in Ecuador
 Statement by the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Coup d’ état Attempt in Ecuador
Following instructions from the President of the Councils of State and of Ministers I will make the following statement:
* The government of the Republic of Cuba condemns and expresses its strongest rejection to the Coup d’ état that is taking place in Ecuador. President Correa has denounced that there is a Coup d’ état taking place, that he has been attacked and is being retained by force at the Police Metropolitan Hospital in Quito.
* Cuba hopes that the leadership of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces honor their obligation to respect and enforce the Constitution, to guarantee the inviolability of the lawfully elected President of the Republic and ensure the State of Law.
* We make the head of the Armed Forces from Ecuador responsible for the physical integrity and the life of President Correa. His complete freedom of movement and the exercise of his duties must be guaranteed.
* We strongly reject the statements attributed to the so called Sociedad Patriótica (Patriotic Society) of Lucio Gutiérrez, proclaiming intentions openly in favor of the coup.
* Cuba offers its most absolute and full support to the legit and constitutional government of President Rafael Correa and backs the Ecuadorian people that is mobilizing to rescue their President.
* Cuba joins the statements by Latin-American Presidents and international organizations demanding that the coup attempt be stopped.
* I call upon the US government to make a statement against the coup d’ état. Its spokesperson has only stated that “he is following the situation closely”. An omission in this regard would make him an accomplice of the coup attempt.
* Facts such as this, serve only to the interests from outside our region that pretend to prevent the advance of independent and transforming processes.
* This is also an attempt to silence the voice of Ecuador and of its President in his confronting the US interventionist policy in the region.
* Destabilizing attempts such as these seek only to bring back from the past the times when coup d’ état used to take place, now through other methods, to restore the imperialist domination and the oligarchies.
* Cuba warned, on the occasion of the coup d’ état organized in Honduras with the participation of power sectors from the United States, and after with the situation of impunity accorded to those who staged the coup, that with these serious facts a new era of coup d’ état and military dictatorships in Latin America had been reopened.
Havana,
September 30th, 2010,
3:00PM.
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