{"id":12992,"date":"2026-09-09T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=12992"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:00:15","slug":"cuban-foreign-minister-exposes-u-s-inconsistency-with-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/cuban-foreign-minister-exposes-u-s-inconsistency-with-international-law-09092026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban foreign minister exposes U.S. inconsistency with international law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruno Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla, Cuba\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, emphasized this Tuesday that the current US administration\u2019s practice of renaming geographic locations without regard to international norms constitutes an inconsistency with international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe way things are going, the United States government is going to leave its citizens geographically disoriented. Soon they won\u2019t know what gulf, lake, building, country, continent or planet they\u2019re in,\u201d the foreign minister emphasized on his Facebook profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center alignwide wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radiohc.cu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mapa-trump-300x195.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radiohc.cu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mapa-trump-300x195.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.radiohc.cu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mapa-trump-768x500.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.radiohc.cu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mapa-trump-585x381.webp 585w, https:\/\/www.radiohc.cu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mapa-trump.webp 900w\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foto: EFE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Charter of the United Nations, in Article 2, establishes the obligation to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States, which is violated when a country unilaterally imposes names that disregard the legitimate authority of other governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This practice contradicts the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), which obliges States to act in good faith in their international relations, and constitutes an act of imposition that disregards diplomatic practice and international custom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such actions are part of a policy of disregarding customary international law, which recognizes the validity of official names adopted by States within their territories, and reflect a unilateral stance that erodes the principles of sovereign equality and non-intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poor advice, improvisation, and the current U.S. secretary of state\u2019s ignorance results in these epic failures in international policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Rodr&iacute;guez Parrilla, Cuba&rsquo;s Minister of Foreign Affairs, emphasized this Tuesday that the current US administration&rsquo;s practice of renaming geographic locations without regard to international norms constitutes an inconsistency with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-12992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12994,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions\/12994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12992"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}