At the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting, held May 14-15 in India, Political Bureau member and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla stated that, "the current exclusionary international order has been practically destroyed by the US attempt to make it unipolar again, through an imperialist agenda based on military force, supremacism, and fascist neoconservatism."
This was reported via social media, in connection with his participation in the eighteenth edition of the event, which is taking place in the year the group celebrates its 20th anniversary and seeks to consolidate its position as an indispensable player on the international stage.
The Foreign Minister took the opportunity to update participants on the challenges facing the island, stemming from the intensification of the blockade, the energy embargo, and the threats of military intervention by the United States.
Specifically, in that forum, he denounced that "Cuba is under the threat of direct military aggression from the U.S. and is suffering the effects of a brutal blockade on fuel supplies, which constitutes a growing threat to international peace and security and a violation of international law and the universally accepted rules of international trade and freedom of navigation," he emphasized.
In that regard, the head of Cuban diplomacy rejected "in the strongest terms, President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders against Cuba of January 29, which imposed the oil blockade, and of May 1, which establishes the so-called ‘secondary sanctions’ against entities in third countries that operate or have operated with Cuba."
Furthermore, he expressed his opposition to the decisions of May 7 by the U.S. Treasury Department. "These additional measures reinforce the blockade against Cuba and its extraterritorial effects to extreme and unprecedented levels," he stated.
According to information from Prensa Latina (PL), the meeting between foreign ministers and heads of delegation of the member and partner countries of the bloc, the participants analyze global and regional issues of common interest, and on the reform of global governance and the multilateral system, among others.
This meeting of the organization called upon to play a leading role in building a just and inclusive multipolar world is significant because, among other aspects, the Indian presidency aims to move from shared diagnosis to concrete implementation and also fosters exchange on important global issues of priority interest to the Global South.
Thus, under the motto "Building for resilience, innovation, cooperation, and sustainability," New Delhi seeks to demonstrate that the bloc can be more than just a high-level forum; it can be an effective platform for development interests, Prensa Latina reported.
