{"id":2006,"date":"2020-06-03T22:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2020-06-03T22:17:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:17:28","slug":"cuba-denounces-us-blockade-prevents-it-from-attending-oacps-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-denounces-us-blockade-prevents-it-from-attending-oacps-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba denounces US blockade prevents it from attending OACPS forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brussels, June 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba on Wednesday denounced that the US blockade precluded the country from attending the 1st Extraordinary Inter-Sessional Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS).<br>The online multilateral forum &#8216;Transcending the Covid-19 pandemic: building resilience through global solidarity&#8217; was hosted by its current President Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta from the US platform ZOOM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, Cuba has not been able to attend the summit due to its non-access to ZOOM due to the economic, commercial and financial US blockade the Cubans have been suffering for six decades, the Cuban Ambassador to Belgium, Norma Goicochea, warned in a letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norma Goicochea, who also represents Cuba in Luxembourg and the European Union (EU), asked organizers to circulate the document among OACPS members, to whom she confirmed Havana&#8217;s willingness to continue its cooperative ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;As can be seen, the US blockade also violates Cuba&#8217;s right to attend online international forums, considering that most of the platforms used are from the United States,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goicochea also insisted that such a situation violates the principle of sovereign equality of States, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, as well as purposes contained therein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plenglish.com\/index.php?o=rn&amp;id=56350&amp;SEO=cuba-denounces-us-blockade-prevents-it-from-attending-oacps-forum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prensa latina<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, June 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba on Wednesday denounced that the US blockade precluded the country from attending the 1st Extraordinary Inter-Sessional Summit of Heads<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-denounces-us-blockade-prevents-it-from-attending-oacps-forum\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,44,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-facts","category-uncategorized","category-us-aggression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3036,"url":"https:\/\/www.cubasupport.ie\/latest\/cuba-lost-5-6-billion-over-last-year-due-to-the-us-blockade\/","url_meta":{"origin":2006,"position":0},"title":"Cuba Lost $5.6 Billion Over Last Year Due To the US Blockade","author":"Editorial Team","date":"October 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Accumulated damages over six decades reach US$144.4 billion at current prices, Foreign Affairs Ministry Rodriguez recalled. 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