The State Duma adopted an Appeal to the United Nations General Assembly, parliaments of member states of the United Nations, and international parliamentary organizations on the need to end economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Republic of Cuba.
The Chairman of the State
Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
Vyacheslav Victorovich
Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (Elected in a single mandate electoral district № 164 – Saratov district, Saratov Oblast)
emphasized at the plenary meeting that “our country
supports the idea of building multipolar world, a fair world order.” “Relations
should be built on the principles of friendship, non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states, absence of double standards and, of course, mutually
beneficial cooperation,” he added.
The Chairman of the State Duma stressed: “Trade wars should be stopped, they affect everyone. Blockades should become a thing of the past, as well as sanctions should be.”
Vyacheslav Volodin recalled that more than 35 thousand sanctions have been imposed on our country. But Biden and leaders of European states who “repeatedly mentioned that they are doing everything possible for the blockade of our country, they have failed”, as noted the Chairman of the State Duma. “That is why when we face injustice, we are convinced that it should not happen again in relation to other states and we consistently stand for it,” concluded Vyacheslav Volodin.
Members of the State Duma consider the United States’ political sanctions against the Republic “as an unacceptable instrument of political pressure”. “t causes considerable harm to Cubans, worsens the country’s socio-economic situation and destabilizes the socio-political conditions in the entire region. “It causes considerable harm to Cubans, worsens the country’s socio-economic situation and destabilizes the socio-political conditions in the entire region,” says the appeal.
The economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Republic of Cuba by the United States of America is a systematic violation of the key principles and norms of international law. “This blockade and its consequences impair basic socio-economic rights of the Cuban people, including the right to development, food, health and access to medicines and medical equipment. These artificial barriers set up against imports of food, medical supplies and medical equipment have dire, often tragic, consequences,” notes the text of the appeal.
The document will be send to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the Federation Council, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Civic Chamber, the UN General Assembly, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Latin American Parliament, the African Parliamentary Union, the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, the AEAN Inter-parliamentary Assembly, the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum, the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), the Parliament of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR Parliament) and parliaments of member states of the United Nations.
