La Demajagua Newspapers.
| Cuba will Update its Migratory Policy, Ratified Raul |
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| Written by ACN |
| Monday, 26 December 2011 11:41 |
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HAVANA, Cuba.-Cuban President Raul Castro ratified on Friday Cuba's willingness to continue working on the updating of its migratory policy. During his speech at the Parliament, Raul said that, as might be expected, there are those who have urged us, whether in a malicious or well-intentioned way, to speed up, and some try to impose the sequence and scope of measures to be adopted, as if it were something insignificant and not the destiny of the Revolution and our homeland. Many consider as urgent the implementation of a new migratory policy, while forgetting the exceptional circumstances Cuba is living under the siege the US government's policy of interference and subversion entails, a government always after an opportunity to achieve its well-known purposes, he said. Previously, he highlighted the hard, profound and necessary work carried out by the Permanent Implementation and Development Commission, created during the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in April. He referred to the current world panorama and, after describing it as convulse, he defined as dangerous and reactionary the tendencies observed in the world, "where expressions of resistance and popular protests against neo-liberal capitalism increase." Raul also pointed out that Latin America advances towards regional integration and sovereignty, and gave as an example the recent summit to found the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 2. He highlighted that, at that forum, Cuba was nanimously elected to chair the mechanism in 2013 and to be the venue of the organization's meeting that year. The Cuban head of state recalled that on December 8 Cuba met with its Caribbean sister nations in Trinidad y Tobago for the 4th CARICOM-Cuba Summit, where the Caribbean island received support and solidarity from neighboring nations. He pointed out that before Holy Week, Havana will receive the visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Head of State of Vatican City and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, who will be welcomed "with affection and respect." After stressing that the US government insists in its already traditional hostility towards Cuba, he asserted that the island is firm in its proposal of advancing towards the normalization of relations with that country. He underlined that, while Cuba updates its socialism, "by changing everything that should be changed," the US government continues being anchored to the past." Barack Obama, the 11th US President since1959, doesn't seem to understand that Cuba made huge and long sacrifices to achieve its independence in the 19th century and defend its freedom at Bay of Pigs, the October Crisis, the beginning of the so-called Special Period in the 20th century and throughout all these years of the 21st. Sometimes, it seems as if he were not even informed of the fact that, in the face of this reality, his government has had to give up its most repeated pretexts to justify the blockade and create others that are increasingly unsustainable, he said. Before concluding his speech, the Cuban President congratulated the Cuban people for the intense work carried out in 2011, as well as for the New Year, particularly The Cuban Five and their relatives. Next, he recalled that the First National Party Conference will be held in January, 2012, "so there won't be much time to rest," he said. |