Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez during his speech at the XXVIII. Iberoamerican Summit.
After a fruitful day in the Dominican Republic, where he participated in the high-level segment of the XXVIII. Ibero-American Summit, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PCC and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, returned to Havana this Saturday.
“After a fruitful day in the Dominican Republic, the President has returned to Cuba, where he will leave very early on March 26 to exercise his right to vote in the national elections,” the presidency wrote on Twitter.
Among other activities related to the Ibero-American Summit, Díaz-Canel met with his Bolivian counterpart Luis Arce Catacora, who tweeted that “we had a pleasant meeting with the Cuban President’s brother. We reaffirm our relationships of mutual cooperation and fraternity to continue the path of revolution, progress and social justice for the benefit of our peoples.”
Almost at the end of his working day this Saturday in the Dominican Republic, the Cuban President had a brief conversation with the island’s diplomatic staff in that country and thanked them for all the work they are doing there.
The final declaration of the XXVIII. One of the points of the Ibero-American Summit expresses its rejection of unilateral coercive measures contrary to international law and the United Nations Charter.
In a special communiqué, the Ibero-American nations opposed the application of the Helms-Burton Act, the tightening of the blockade and the financial persecution of Cuba, and called on the US government to comply with the 30 resolutions of the UN General Assembly. and they are calling for the island to be excluded from Washington’s arbitrary list of countries that support terrorism.
The Santo Domingo Declaration reaffirms the “right of every people freely to choose and build their political, economic and social system and institutions in peace, stability and justice” and advocates relationships based on sovereignty and non-interference.
At the same time, it expresses its support for multilateralism, emphasizes the role of a rules-based, open, non-discriminatory, fair, inclusive, transparent and equitable multilateral trading system, and points to the need for a fairer, more democratic, international financial system that is inclusive and supportive.
In final statement, Ibero-American Summit rejects unilateral coercive measures and speaks out against the blockade of Cuba