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Press release 474/2011
(09 December 2011)
SPECIAL STATEMENT BY HEADS OF STATE AND
GOVERNMENT OF CARICOM AND CUBA
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen,
Greater Georgetown, Guyana) We the Heads of State
and Government of CARICOM and Cuba gathered for the
Fourth CARICOM-Cuba Summit in Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago are affronted by the intrusion
of the United States against the sovereignty of
Trinidad and Tobago. This is a unilateral and
unwarranted extra-territorial application of the
United States Helms Burton Law which is contrary to
the United Nations Charter and to international law.
It also flies in the face of the annual overwhelming
rejection of this policy by the United Nations
General Assembly.
We reject the intervention of the US authorities
which prevented the hosting of the CARICOM-Cuba
Summit at the Hilton Hotel. This was one more
demonstration of the injustice of the United States
embargo and its harmful impact on the daily life of
the Cuban people. On this occasion the
extra-territorial action could have impacted on the
success of the Summit, but thanks to the commitment
and solidarity of the Member States of the Caribbean
Community we can celebrate an outcome which
reinforces the strong fraternal bonds between
CARICOM and Cuba.
CONTACT:
piu@caricom.org;caricompublicinfo@gmail.com
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