Statement
issued by the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
ON January 13, 2011, taking
advantage of a visit made to Cuba in order to
participate in a round of migration talks, the head
of the U.S. delegation Roberta Jacobson, principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western
Hemisphere Affairs, accompanied by Julissa Reynoso,
Assistant Secretary for Central America, the
Caribbean and Cuba; Peter Brennan, head of the
Office for Cuban Affairs, and Jonathan Farrar, head
of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, met with a
group of mercenaries whose activities against
constitutional order in Cuba are directed and
financed by the United States government.
Prior to the migration talks, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs communicated clearly to
the U.S. government its rejection of any attempts to
use this official visit to Cuba to engage in any
offensive or disrespectful activities directed
against our country.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
condemns this open provocation by high-ranking State
Department officials, which constitutes a flagrant
violation of the international principles and norms
which govern relations among states and is an
affront to our people who, for more than 50 years,
have faced the United States' government policy of
hostility and blockade.
This act once again confirms that
there has been no change in the U.S. policy of
subversion and intervention in Cuba’s internal
affairs and that its priority continues to be
supporting the internal counterrevolution and
promoting destabilization activities, while
intensifying the blockade and the disruption of
Cuban commercial and financial transactions around
the world.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
reiterating its will, already expressed by the Cuban
government, to hold respectful talks about any topic
whatsoever with the U.S. government as long as it is
between equals, without prejudicing our country's
independence, sovereignty and self-determination,
states that it will not tolerate any interference
whatsoever by the United states in the internal
affairs of Cuba and will use all political and legal
mechanisms at its disposal to confront it.
January 13, 2011
