Havana, Sept 17 (ACN) Thirty-five ex-presidents of the world sent US President Joe Biden a letter asking him to remove Cuba from the US list of states sponsors of terrorism.
Colombia’s former president Ernesto Samper published the letter signed by former heads of state from Latin American, Caribbean, European, African and Asian countries.
In their letter, the former presidents ask Joe Biden to withdraw Cuba from the US blacklist before he concludes his term of office to relieve the current situation of millions of innocent people.
Below is the full text of the letter, and the names of the thirty-five former presidents, as published on the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
https://cubaminrex.cu/sites/default/files/2024-09/Cuba%20JB_ENG_0.pdf
September 11th, 2024
Mr.
JOSEPH BIDEN
President of the United States of America
Mr. President,
As you are aware, for decades of unilateral sanctions and coercive measures, the Cuban economy has
been one of the most heavily impacted in the world and is currently, socially, at a point of no return.
During the Barack Obama administration -of which you were a part- progress was made in a historic
step towards the easing of those sanctions and the normalization of diplomatic relations between two
neighbors who should not deprive each other of their mutual cooperation simply because they have
political systems with different ideological inspiration.
There is no record in our post-war history, since the founding of the United Nations System, of any
international normativity that stipulates that relations between States must be governed or conditioned
according to their level of ideological alignment, which would imply the end of sovereignty and
self-determination as fundamental pillars upon which the world governance system has been
established in peace since the end of World War II. Precisely based on this reasoning, Obama himself
recognized the anachronism of some unilateral measures against states like Cuba.
In May of this year, the State Department decided to remove Cuba from the list of countries not
cooperating fully against terrorism, a fair and correct decision that we applauded at the time. Despite
this, in a contradictory manner, your country’s authorities insist on keeping Cuba included on another
list -the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism-. How can it be asserted, at the same time, that a country
cooperates in the global fight against terrorism while simultaneously accusing it of openly
supporting it?
Without any evidence, Cuba is accused of having links to terrorist activities of which it has also been
a victim and harsh sanctions are imposed based on this presumption, directly impacting it
