Cuban President Participates in Final Day of the BRICS Summit

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez participated this Monday in the session on “Environment, COP 30, and Global Health.” Open to member countries, partners, and guests at the XVII BRICS Summit taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Upon his arrival at the Museum of Modern Art, where the event is taking place. He was welcomed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Along with the leaders attending the final session of the meeting.

Díaz-Canel Bermúdez today urged the countries participating in the Summit to unite in the active construction of a new international order based on solidarity, cooperation, and sustainable development.

According to the Cuban Presidency’s official website, during his speech at the working session dedicated to the environment. The Cuban president emphasized that “it is not enough to wish for it; we must fight for this new order.” Referring to the urgent need to transform a global landscape. Marked by inequalities, environmental crises, and threats to peace.

Díaz-Canel recalled Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro’s historic warning at the 1992 Rio Summit. “Tomorrow will be too late,” and affirmed that this phrase resonates even more strongly today. Given the inaction of the powers facing global challenges.

The note also highlights that the Cuban head of state denounced the lack of political will of the most developed nations to modify their unsustainable patterns of production and consumption. Also criticized the gaps in access to healthcare, exacerbated by unilateral coercive measures.

Likewise, Cuba’s commitment to sustainable development was highlighted. Exemplified by the presentation of its Nationally Determined Contribution 3.0, which prioritizes climate change adaptation actions and the strengthening of health and early warning systems.

In his speech, the Cuban President reaffirmed the role of the BRICS Group as a platform for transforming the current international economic order, inherited from centuries of colonialism and domination, and denounced the complicity of global elites in the Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people.

At the end of his speech, Díaz-Canel wished success to the upcoming COP30 in Belém, Brazil, and received recognition from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who praised the work of Cuban doctors and the example of the Cuban health system.

With information from CNA

Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez

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