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Havana, 16 May (EFE) .- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel assured this Monday that the island’s exclusion from the Americas Summit – along with Nicaragua and Venezuela – will only serve to ensure that US President Joe Biden this is domestic politics and that “a few hours later will remember what happened there”.
“The US government’s manipulation of the immigration issue, used against Cuba for destabilizing purposes, will not be discussed,” he said at the end of the extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP, unicameral parliament). Parliament) attended by former President Raúl Castro (2008-2018).
For the president, the refusal to invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela is a reaction to the US internal political campaigns, particularly in the state of Florida, in reference to the upcoming general elections in November.
“Those who accept the obligation to host a hemispheric meeting must have the ability and the courage to listen to everyone, to hear different criteria and to face the truth, no matter how hard it may be,” the president said in his live speech broadcast on state television.
The potential exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua has drawn criticism, and even some country leaders, such as the presidents of Mexico and Bolivia, have warned that if they are excluded they will not attend.
On Sunday, Chile joined calls for the three countries to join. That nation’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonia Urrejola, stated that “exclusion has yielded no results in terms of human rights”.
Other countries, such as some Caribbean nations, are also considering whether or not to attend the Los Angeles meeting under these conditions.
the ninth Summit of the Americas will be the second organized by the United States after the original one in Miami in 1994, and the main objective of the US on this occasion is to draft a regional compact on migration. EFE
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