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Cuba’s Foreign Minister reacted angrily to Trump’s remarks on Tuesday, accusing the US president of spreading “falsehoods” about the Communist-run island.
US President Donald Trump addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. (IMAGE: AFP)
Cuban delegates walked out of the room during US President Donald Trump’s speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday after he threatened to use the “unmatched military might” of the United States to protect Washington’s interests in Latin America and said Cuba’s Communist government would soon “fall”.
“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,” Trump said.
“It’s failing like never before, and it will fall,” he added.
Cuba’s Foreign Minister reacted angrily to Trump’s remarks on Tuesday, accusing the US president of spreading “falsehoods” about the Communist-run island.
The Cuban government has rejected Trump’s characterisation of the situation in Cuba and his claims about the pressure facing its government.
“The US government is incapable of accepting that Cuba is and has the right to be a full sovereign and independent country,” Rodriguez wrote on X, adding that “none of the falsehoods by the US President at the UN can deny that fact.”
“We are a country of peace and we deserve peace,” said Rodriguez, who is heading the Cuban delegation to New York.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel also denounced Trump’s bellicose rhetoric.
“Unable to justify the punishment against the people of Cuba and their genocidal economic war, the President of the United States repeats at the UN that Cuba represents a threat,” he posted on X.
“The lie is the resource of those who refuse to accept the right to self-determination of the Cuban people,” he said.
Trump has claimed that the communist island located 150 kilometers (90 miles) off Florida’s coast represents an “extraordinary threat” to US national security.
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