The virtual meeting “Cuba will win” brought together leaders of political parties, representatives of international organizations, academics, social communicators, graduates of Cuban universities and the Movement of Solidarity with Cuba in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Timor Leste.
The Cambodian delegation was integrated by H.E. Mr. Kem Sambath, Vice President of External Relations Commission of the CPP Central Committee, Mr. Toun Yat, Director of European and American Department, Commission for International Relations of CPP Central Committee of External Relations Commission for the CPP Central Committee, Mr. Chet Ratha, Bureau Chief of Europe-America Department of External Relations Commission of the CPP Central Committee, Mr. Hem Chanly, Honorary President of the Association of Cambodian Graduates from Cuba (AGCC) and Mr. THET Bunthoeurn, Vice President of AGCC.
Juan Carlos Marsán, Deputy Chief of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, offered an explanation about the current Cuban context, highlighting the unconventional war actions against Cuba by the United States government in the economic sphere, political and media, with the aim of generating destabilization in the country.
He denounced the limitations and shortcomings imposed in a shameful way with the intensification of the blockade and its effects in the confrontation with the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Despite this, Cuba has managed to create three vaccines against Covid-19 and two vaccine candidates. Neither the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States and the current pandemic have prevented the Cuban people from continuing to dream and work with passion and optimism as he always has, “he emphasized.
For his part, the vice president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), VÃctor GauteLópez, thanked the friendly associations of Southeast Asia for their moral support and the commitment to always accompany the Cuban people in the fight for justice and the truth on the international stage.
Gaute pointed out that two key words have been engraved in the minds of the Cuban people under the pressure of the current difficult economic conditions and the pandemic: resist and win.
He also said that Cuba continues to build an increasingly just, inclusive and prosperous society project despite the numerous limitations and imperial harassment and that the best example of this is the Cuban vaccines against Covid-19, “an achievement of our scientists, the work and the fruit of the Cuban Revolution, which today allows Cuba to make a great difference.”
In the same way, the head of the Department of International Relations of the Union of Young Communists (UJC), Suniel Sosa Cordero, asserted that for young Cubans the difficulties of these times have been an incentive to increase creativity, resistance capacity and confidence in the Revolution.
He listed several examples that show how Cuban youth have been during these 18 months in the front line of combat against the pandemic, in neighborhoods, communities, isolation centers, hospitals and in production.
Sosa Cordero urged to continue developing relationships with youth organizations in Southeast Asia, for the benefit of mutual learning, cooperation and the preservation of historical memory, showing that geographical and cultural distance will never be an obstacle to the development of fraternal relationships between like-minded countries on the basis of unity and solidarity that are sorely needed in these times.
During the meeting, the attendees from the Asian region ratified their admiration and commitment to the Cuban Revolution, its leaders and its history, rejected the criminal blockade imposed by the US on Cuba and recognized the country’s efforts in confronting the pandemic. , as well as the international cooperation provided by the Henry Reeve brigades to other nations of the world.
