The Cuban ambassador to Brazil, Víctor Cairo, has expressed his gratitude for the solidarity shown to the island by the president of the South American giant, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, upon presenting his credentials.
“It has been an honor to present my credentials accrediting me as Ambassador of Cuba to H.E. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil,” the diplomat stated on social media.
“We appreciate his solidarity with the Cuban people and government in their opposition to the blockade against Cuba,” added Cairo, who shared a photo of his meeting with the head of state.
The Brazilian president has repeatedly expressed his support for the Caribbean nation in public forums and has criticized the economic, commercial, and financial blockade that the United States has maintained against the island for more than 65 years.
“We must stop this blockade against Cuba and let Cubans live their lives. We cannot remain silent in the face of this,” Lula declared last April during the closing of the IV Summit in Defense of Democracy held in Barcelona, Spain.
A few days later, in statements to the press in Germany, he again criticized this policy and affirmed his opposition to any form of blockade.
“It is a global disgrace that a country has not had the opportunity, after the revolution, to decide its own destiny, with a power imposing a blockade, an ideological blockade against Cuba.”
At the end of February, during the presentation of certified copies of Cairo’s credentials as the new ambassador to Brazil, the Brazilian government had already reiterated its solidarity with Cuba.
On that occasion, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Laura da Rocha, received the credentials from the Cuban diplomat and reviewed with him the excellent state of bilateral relations, established 120 years ago.
According to Agencia Brasil, Lula received the credentials of seven new ambassadors this Wednesday in private ceremonies at the Planalto Palace, the seat of the Executive branch.
In addition to the Cuban diplomat, the meetings were with the ambassadors of Japan, Yasushi Noguchi; Suriname, Ike Desmond Antonius; the Philippines, Patrick John U. Hilado; Haiti, Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste; South Korea, Song Se Il; and Mozambique, Alexandre Herculano Manjate.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
