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4 March 2019 | 11
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Declaration of the Ministry of External Relationships:
The Ministry of Relationships Exterior rejects in the most energetic terms the new escalade in the aggressive behavior of the United States against Cuba.
The Department of State announced today the decision of allowing that, starting from the next one March 19 and to the help of the Title III of the Law Helms-Burton, judicial demands are only presented in tribunals of the United States against Cuban companies included later in the List of Restricted Cuban Entities elaborated by that government in November of 2017 and modernized one year. This arbitrary and illegitimate listing, directed to recrudecer the blockade and to extend their extraterritorial effects, prohíbe to the American citizens to carry out direct financial transactions with the signal entities.
The announcement of the Department of having Been also indicated that it would suspend for single 30 days the possibility to begin judicial actions equally concept against other Cuban entities or foreigners with commercial or economic bonds in Cuba.
From their entrance in vigor in 1996, the law Helms-Burton has tried to universalize the economic blockade, by means of brutal and illegal pressures of United States against third countries, its governments and its companies. It pursues to suffocate the Cuban economy, and to promote or to increase the population’s lacks with the purpose of imposing in Cuba a government that responds to the interests of United States.
For their illegitimate and contrary pretenses the International Right, the Law Helms-Burton and the blockade stir up the universal rejection, reiterated during almost three decades, in the most important regional and international organisms. The most recent example was in the General Assembly of the United Nations when the past November 1 object of ten serial votings of rejection in that the government from the United States was isolation at all were.
The title II of the Law Helms-Burton prepares that the revolutionary government’s overthrow, the later one guides of the country in charge of an American inspector and the ulterior establishment of a government contrarrevolucionario and subordinate to Washington they would have as unequivocal task the refund or payment to the old proprietors of all the properties that are claimed by old owners or its descendants, have been American or not to the moment of the nationalizations or that they abandoned them. In that whole period, the economic blockade would remain in the middle of vigor.
Consequently, the Cubans would be forced to return, to restore or to pay to claimants from the United States for the house where they live, the land where their communities are built, the agricultural earth where they cultivate and they take place, the school where their children, the hospital or the policlínico are educated where they receive medical services, where their work center is, where they have a particular business, besides for the electricity services, it dilutes and subsidized communications that the population enjoys.
It is a conceivable alone pretense in the minds of those who identify to Cuba like a colonial possession. As it prepares the law Helms-Burton, the economic blockade could only rise when that ambition has been reached.
This law rests on two fundamental lies: the notion that the nationalizations carried out soon after of the revolutionary victory were illegitimate or undue and that Cuba constitutes a threat to the national security of the United States.
The Cuban nationalizations were carried out aided by laws, with strict attachment to the Constitution and in conformity with the International Right. All the nationalizations contemplated processes of fair and appropriate compensation that the government from the United States refused to consider. Cuba reached and it honored global agreements of compensation with other nations that today invests in Cuba like Spain, Switzerland, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and France.
The true threat to the peace and the security of the region is the declarations and the government’s from United States irresponsible actions and the plans desestabilizadores against Latin America and the Caribbean in the declared desire of imposing the doctrine Monroe.
The Law of Reafirmación of the Dignity and Cuban Sovereignty of December of 1996, 24 settles down that the Law Helms-Burton is illicit, inapplicable and worthless neither juridical effect some. It considers null all reclamation aided in this law, for any natural or artificial person.
As it specifies that law, the compensation reclamations for the nationalized properties will be able to be part of a negotiation process on the base of the equality and mutual respect between the governments from Cuba and the United States, examined of group with the compensations to the one that the State and the Cuban town have right with reason of the damages and damages caused by the blockade and the aggressions of all type whose responsibility corresponds the government from the United States”. it Clarifies, at the same time that will be excluded of future possible negotiations who it uses the procedures and mechanisms of the Law Helms-Burton in damage of others.
The Cuban government reiterates to the economic partners and the foreign companies that operate in Cuba all the guarantees for the foreign investment and the combined projects. The Cuban Constitution, ratified by wide majority in referendo the past February of 2019, 24 in their article 28 also recognize those guarantees, Not incorporated in the Law of Foreign Investment. 118 of March 29 2014.
Today’s decision imposes additional obstacles to our development objectives and economic progress, but United States will continue failing in its central objective of subjecting for the force the sovereign will of the Cubans and our determination of building the socialism. The majority feeling of the towns of Cuba and United States that it favors the improvement of the relationships and the development of a civilized coexistence will prevail and respectful.