Cuba is willing to have a constructive and respectful relationship with the United States, and we see no reason why the current president, Donald Trump, would be opposed to doing so, affirmed Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío.
In an interview broadcast last night on Mexican television’s Channel 14. The Deputy Foreign Minister noted that, naturally, “it would entail having to recognize that Cuba is a sovereign state” with the rights and prerogatives of self-determination.
“If the United States were capable of doing that alone. I believe there could be a relationship, and if it were capable of addressing what I would call strategic interests that truly concern the entire American Union, the society of the United States,” he stated.
He alluded to the existence of people who have made political careers and enriched themselves through the business of hostility toward the island, but “this does not necessarily represent the feelings” of the Cuban community there, nor of the majority of American society.
The Vice Foreign Minister expressed his conviction that if the majority of the people of that North American nation were properly informed and fully aware of the nature of the Cuban government’s policy toward Cuba, and of the harm it causes to the population, they would openly oppose it.
Regarding the Trump administration’s position toward the island, he noted the presence of significant influence from anti-Cuban sectors, and although there has been no open, declared statement, they have already taken action.
Among these, in addition to the strict maintenance of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by Washington, is the re-inclusion of Cuba on the unilateral list of states that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
At another point in the conversation, Fernández de Cossío mentioned the aggressiveness toward the island by the current US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
“We don’t know what he might think, we don’t really know what level of authority he has in the government, nor how he would respond to a decision by the president regarding our country,” he said.
“But Cuba,” he asserted, “has no limitations on interacting with anyone representing the United States government. As long as it is a dialogue, a respectful exchange in which we clearly state our positions.”
He reaffirmed that his country does not ask the United States for money, soft loans, donations, or preferential trade treatment, but rather something very simple.
“That we be treated as what we are, which is a fully sovereign state, with the capacity and determination to build its own future the way it understands it, not the way the rulers of the United States understand it,” he emphasized. “That’s not too much to ask,” he declared, “and that’s how Cuba relates to the rest of the world, the exception being the United States.”
With information from Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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