Xinhua
20 Jun 2020, 14:51 GMT+10
HAVANA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez on Friday highlighted the importance of international cooperation and solidarity amid global efforts to address the coronavirus outbreak.
"We live in a time of solidarity and of understanding health as a human right, a leading principle of our country's response to the health emergency," the minister said.
"Besides the challenge of preserving human life under pandemic conditions, there is a need to reactivate the economies of our nations," he said.
The remarks were made during a high-level virtual meeting convened by the Council of Ministers of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) at the request of the Barbadian government.
Rodriguez said that unilateral coercive measures taken by the United States against Venezuela and Nicaragua have hindered their access to medical supplies and medicines.
Cuba has sent medical teams and experts to 16 ACS member states to help contain the spread of the pandemic in neighboring Latin American and Caribbean nations.
First founded in 1994, the ACS aims to promote trade links, commerce as well as cooperation in strategic areas such as climate change, natural disasters, tourism, and sustainable development.
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