FM Rodriguez warns of the negative consequences of any military action.

On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez reiterated before the international community that Cuba does not represent a security threat to other governments. His statement came after remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who identified Cuba as a risk.

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During an interview with Fox News, Rodriguez said Rubio’s position “seeks to mislead public opinion in the U.S., the U.S. Congress and the international community.” His statement comes amid charges brought against Cuba by the U.S. Department of Justice related to the crash of a small aircraft in which four people died while illegally flying over Cuban airspace three decades ago.

Rodriguez also said those accusations lack legal and ethical basis and are part of a “political narrative aimed at manipulating U.S. public opinion to justify military aggression against Cuba.”

Against this backdrop, the Cuban diplomat submitted a formal request to the United Nations, seeking support to prevent any attempt at military aggression by Washington. His intervention took place during a session of the United Nations Security Council convened by China and attended by UN Secretary Antonio Guterres.

“In an open debate of the Security Council on ‘Defending the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations and Strengthening the UN-Centered International System,’ I denounced that, in practice, the U.S. government is in a position of undermining international peace and security and violating international law and humanitarian law with regard to Cuba,” Rodriguez posted on X.

“The U.S. oil blockade against Cuba is equivalent in its effects to a naval blockade, which is an act of war and genocide that subjects the Cuban population to conditions that threaten its integrity and existence and constitutes a cruel and indiscriminate ‘collective punishment’ that today causes deaths. This is reflected by the doubling of the infant mortality rate from 4.0 to 9.9 per 1,000 live births, or the reduction in life expectancy among children with cancer from 85% to 65%.”

“A military aggression would provoke a bloodbath. Thousands of Cubans would die defending the homeland and sacred values and causes, and young Americans would also perish, with no cause or ideal to defend, dragged into violence by an imperialist, neo-fascist policy of domination, plunder, and conquest,” the Cuban Foreign Minister stressed.

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Source: Minrex – teleSUR

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