New York: Cuba has withdrawn from a UN session after US President Donald Trump called the country a 'failed' state.
“My administration is also seeking a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba, where the communist regime is under great pressure — the biggest pressure they've ever been under. It's an absolutely failed State, it's failing like never before, and it will fall,” Trump said in his speech to the UN General Assembly. “Communism will never be coming to America, but freedom will be coming to Cuba,” he added.
Later, the head of the Cuban delegation and Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez rejected what he called the 'falsehoods' and 'slanders'.
“The US government is unable to accept that Cuba is, and has the right to be, a fully independent and sovereign country,” he wrote on X on Tuesday.
El gobierno de EEUU resulta incapaz de aceptar que #Cuba es, y tiene derecho a ser, un país plenamente independiente y soberano. Ninguna de las falsedades del Presidente de EEUU en @ONU_es y ninguna calumnia pueden ni podrán negar ese hecho.Cuba no es una amenaza para EEUU ni… pic.twitter.com/jqG2CpD9yk
“The economic blockade, including the energy siege, only threatens Cuba and the rest of the nations. It is an act of genocide and collective punishment. We are a country of peace and we deserve peace,” he said.
-With inputs from PTI and Reuters