Last Thursday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla described the Democracy Summit, organized by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, as selective and unilateral, bringing together leaders, activists and representatives from several countries. private sector.
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The Cuban Foreign Minister commented in his profile on the Twitter platform, that the event “lacks international prestige”, and takes place outside the United Nations, although among its thematic themes is the defense of human rights and the democratic system.
He added that the White House “recognizes its isolation in the multilateral organization, and its inability to impose values and rules that respond to its narrow strategic interests.”
In the absence of international prestige, the United States holds a unilateral and selective summit outside the United Nations, because it recognizes its isolation in the multilateral body and its inability to impose values and rules that respond to its narrow strategic interests.
– Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP)
December 9, 2021
Despite having representatives from more than a hundred countries, the forum has been criticized by politicians, the media, and a large portion of the American people, who insinuate that Biden is undermining the democratic principles he is trying to promote in said forum.
They also described it as a kind of thermometer in Washington’s confrontation with China and Russia, countries it accuses of violating human rights, and which have no representatives at the meeting, nor Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey and Iran, among others. .
In this sense, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zagarova, shrugged off “the United States of America. It destroys the system of international relations, which is based on international law and the central role of the United Nations, to create its own comfort zone, which it intends to control on its own.”
The diplomat added that those present in the virtual forum “will be given an honorable right to serve the interests of the American system,” noting that the United States is trying to “change the existing world order by forming new alliances, associations and institutions.”
Meanwhile, in the United States on Thursday, rallies were called to demand respect for the right to vote in California, Georgia, New York and Virginia, as part of a wave of demonstrations across the Union that began last day 6 and will continue until the next day 13 demands for civil and electoral rights, review Redistributed state electoral maps affecting minorities, especially people of African descent.
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