Cuba proposed that the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) support the urgent dispatch to the Gaza Strip of an international protection mission, authorized by the United Nations General Assembly, with the mandate to guarantee the security and protection of the civilian population and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid and food.
In the voice of the member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the Meeting of the Ministerial Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement on Palestine, in Kampala, Uganda, the Cuban delegation also supported the convening of an International Peace Conference.
Its purpose would be to contribute to the protection of the rights of the Palestinian people, establishing the sovereign State of Palestine and the early entry of that State as a member of the United Nations, said the Cuban Foreign Minister in his speech, published on the Minrex website.
He also reiterated support for South Africa's lawsuit against Israel in the International Court of Justice, in relation to its violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; reiterated the rejection of the application of unilateral coercive measures such as those imposed by the U.S. against several member states of the NAM, and stressed his support for the right to self-determination of the people of Western Sahara.
Also during the day, Rodríguez Parrilla participated in the Ministerial Preparatory Meeting of the XIX Summit of the NAM, in which he reiterated his unchanging solidarity with the Palestinian cause, and thanked the valuable support of the Movement to the just demand for the end of the illegal U.S. blockade of Cuba, as well as the united position against the infamous inclusion of the Island in the spurious unilateral list of State sponsors of terrorism, a fallacy that has a suffocating impact on our economy.
