Santiago de Chile, April 16.- Cuba announced today at ECLAC that it will bring the voice of the South to the Future Summit, will demand the cessation of unilateral coercive measures and will advocate for a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue.
This was expressed by the head of the Cuban delegation, Carlos Fidel Martín, when speaking at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in an interactive virtual session on that event, which will take place in September at the headquarters of the UN in New York.
For Cuba, the future would be much more promising if the unjust United States blockade is lifted once and for all and the country is removed from the arbitrary list of alleged sponsors of terrorism, he said.
The director of International Economic Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment added that a summit of this nature must speak out for a global, fair and lasting solution to the question of Palestine.
This involves the exercise of the inalienable right of that people to self-determination and to build their own independent and sovereign State within the pre-1967 borders and with its capital in East Jerusalem, he said.
Martín recalled that the event will take place in an adverse global context, the product of a combination of structural deformations and crises of a multidimensional nature, which impact developing countries most strongly.
Its final document, the Future Pact, must preserve the intergovernmental character of the United Nations and recognize the supreme objective of poverty eradication as reflected in the 2030 Agenda, he stated.
The reform of the international financial architecture, the creation of a multilateral mechanism for the renegotiation of sovereign debts, food security, climate change, universal health and gender equality are other issues to which solutions will have to be sought, he stated.
Carlos Fidel Martín heads the Cuban delegation to the seventh meeting of the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Countries on Sustainable Development, which is meeting at ECLAC until Thursday.
The representation of the Caribbean country is also made up of Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, vice head of the National Office of Statistics and Information, and Diosdado de Jesús Hernández, specialist in the general directorate of multilateral affairs and international law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Text and photos: PL)
