People’s Summit condemns the US blockade of Cuba

Brussels. – Social, political, trade union, feminist, environmental and grassroots organizations and movements from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, gathered in Belgium at the Summit of Peoples, condemned today, in the final declaration of the event, the economic embargo, the commercial and financial policy imposed by the United States on Cuba, describing this policy as inappropriate. fair and illegitimate.

The document, which summarizes the discussions of the participants on July 17 and 18 in the Belgian capital, Brussels, proposes, as a measure to mobilize, condemn and demand the peoples, the establishment of an international tribunal against the blockade of the Antilles, scheduled for November 16 and 17, 2023.

Likewise, it demands the removal of Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, and condemns the use of unilateral coercive measures that constitute interference in the internal affairs of the countries to which they are applied.

It also calls for an end to the illegal sanctions policy of the United States against Venezuela and Nicaragua, which has been endorsed, and in some cases repeated, by the European Union.

The declaration highlights that the third meeting between the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union, which is being held in parallel with the Peoples’ Summit, in the same city, is an opportunity to advance on the road to establishing relations between the two regions. , based on mutual respect and reciprocity.

It stresses the possibility that these ties enhance cooperation, placing the human being at the center of public policies, without external interference, and categorically rejects any political or military action that seeks to interfere with the natural development of the institutions and constitutional norms of any of the states. countries participating in the summit.

The document adds to the declaration approved at the 26th meeting of the São Paulo Forum (Brasilia, 2023), in which it was affirmed that the dignity of the Cuban people is an example for all nations and people’s parties in the world, and to the proposal to declare the largest of the Antilles a “World Heritage of Dignity”.