On February 19, the Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, will visit the Republic of Cuba

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit the Republic of Cuba, as reported on February 18 on the department’s website.

It is reported that Lavrov’s visit to Cuba is scheduled for February 19. Lavrov plans to meet with the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and hold negotiations with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez.

A wide range of current issues of the global and regional agenda, various aspects of bilateral interaction, including trade, economic, cultural and humanitarian issues, are expected to be discussed.

Cooperation with Cuba, Russia’s key partner in the Latin American and Caribbean region, is based on the Declaration of Principles of Relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Cuba (1996), the Memorandum on Principles of Cooperation Strategic (2009), as well as the Joint Declaration of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on common approaches in international affairs (2018).

In 2023, the Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, visited Russia on an official visit (June 6 to 17). The President of the National Assembly of People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba, Esteban Lazo, participated in the International Parliamentary Conference “Russia—Latin America” held in Moscow (November 29 – December 2). On October 7, 2023, a telephone conversation took place between the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

Meetings of foreign ministers are held on an ongoing basis. Russian-Cuban political consultations on international, regional and bilateral issues are regularly held. An interministerial Plan for Political Consultations is in force (the next one for the period from 2023 to 2027, signed after the meeting between Sergei Lavrov and Brung Rodríguez in New York in September 2022).

In addition to the key aspects of political interaction, in the upcoming meetings attention will be paid to strengthening trade, economic and investment ties, including taking into account the comprehensive bilateral regulatory framework formed in the last period to resolve this issue. The most important role in this work is played by the current Russian-Cuban Intergovernmental Commission on Commercial, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation.

A solid basis for deepening Russian-Cuban interaction on the world stage is the proximity or coincidence of the positions of Russia and Cuba on the main problems of the regional and global agenda, the commitment to strictly comply with the norms and principles of international law, primarily the Charter of the United Nations and strengthening the central role of the UN.

Cuba traditionally supports Russian priorities within the UN General Assembly, in particular, the fight against the glorification of Nazism, confidence-building measures in space and not being the first to place weapons in space, and international information security.

Moscow and Havana are unanimous on the issues of the inadmissibility of interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States, the categorical unacceptability of the use of unilateral sanctions measures in violation of the UN Charter and strive to jointly move forward in the construction of a just multipolar world order. based on the true equality of states.

The Cuban leadership, despite the colossal pressure exerted on it by the “collective West”, openly declares that it was the United States, due to the expansion of NATO to the borders of our country, as well as the irresponsible disregard for decades of justified demands for Russian security guarantees, which caused a crisis in modern-day Ukraine. Cuba votes against important anti-Russian initiatives on international platforms.

Russia strongly supports demands for an immediate end to Washington’s illegal commercial, economic and financial blockade against Cuba and the removal of the country from the US State Department’s unilateral list of sponsors of terrorism. We believe that the application of illegal sanctions against Havana, which cause colossal damage to the island’s economy, limits the natural rights of Cuban citizens to a dignified life and to choose their own path of development, contradicts the fundamental principles and norms of the UN Charter. .

Source: Rossa Primavera