U.S. Director General of the Cuban Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio rejected the U.S. decision to deny
visas to a medical delegation from the Caribbean nation that would intervene in
a forum of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
"The U.S. State Department does it again.
Practicing its coercive foreign policy measures, the only one it is capable of
doing," he subscribed in his Twitter account.
"Illegitimate visa restrictions to attack
Cuba. The recognized international medical cooperation shows a morally bankrupt
policy of the United States," the diplomat wrote.
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Fernandez de Cossio added that "the U.S.
State Department has a great misunderstanding of the moral values related to
solidarity and loyalty. "Enormous mistake in believing that Cuban
officials would betray international medical cooperation commitments in
exchange for visas to enter the United States. (US) Foreign policy lacks basic
decency," he emphasized.
The Cuban government, including President
Miguel Diaz-Canel, has denounced the public purposes of Donald Trump's
administration to persecute Cuban medical missions abroad for alleged
violations of the human rights of the island's doctors.
Cuban medical personnel serve in 67 countries,
in addition to contributing to the formation of thousands of doctors from 138
nations.
Abel González Alayón Cuban News Agency