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The US leadership is responsible for fueling the conflict in Ukraine and is trying, through media pressure, to blame Russia for the crisis, Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly of People's Power, Cuba's parliament, said on Saturday.
"We reiterate on behalf of the Cuban parliament the most vigorous condemnation of the unilateral sanctions imposed against Russia. We oppose the policy of isolating Russia through a powerful media campaign aimed at inciting hatred against Russia, which they seek to blame for the escalation of the conflict. We are well aware of how the US government operates, the true culprit of this problem," he said at a meeting with State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin in Havana. Lazo noted that Cuba also condemns the policy of NATO expansion and bringing NATO closer to Russia's borders.
"On behalf of the Cuban parliament, we once again express the strongest condemnation of the unilateral sanctions imposed against Russia,
Parliamentary Conference ‘Russia-Latin America’ Planned for This Fall - Moscow
State Duma (Russian parliament's lower house) Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has announced that an international parliamentary conference, "Russia-Latin America," will be held starting from the end of September and has invited the speaker of the Cuban parliament to attend the event.
"From September 30 to October 2, a large international parliamentary conference ‘Russia - Latin America’ is scheduled to be held. We invite you to lead a delegation from the Cuban parliament and visit the Russian Federation," Volodin said on Saturday, during a meeting with President of the National Assembly of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernandez.
A State Duma delegation headed by Volodin is currently on an official visit to Cuba. Volodin met with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday, discussing interparliamentary relations. The State Duma speaker said that the Russian parliament and Cuba’s National Assembly should enhance cooperation, improve bilateral trade, and do everything possible to support decisions made at the level of heads of state.
Volodin conveyed greetings from Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Cuban president and said that relations between Miguel Diaz-Canel and Putin set the dynamics for the development of cooperation between the two countries.
US sees some key nations sit out its standoff with Russia, China — newspaper
US intelligence notes that a number of influential states, including Brazil, Egypt, India and Pakistan, are not inclined to support Washington in its standoff with Moscow and Beijing, the Washington Post wrote on Saturday.
According to the publication, "President Biden’s global agenda faces significant challenges as major developing nations seek to evade the intensifying standoff between the United States, Russia and China and, in some cases, exploit that rivalry for their own gain." This is according to classified American intelligence assessments that leaked online, the newspaper specifies.
The article stressed that Brazil, Egypt, India and Pakistan are unwilling to unequivocally support one side or the other "in an era when America is no longer the world’s unchallenged superpower." According to US intelligence agencies, influential regional powers tend "to sit out" in light of the rivalry between Washington, Moscow and Beijing. It is also stated that Russia "demonstrates the ability to deflect Western pressure." While key U.S. allies in Europe and East Asia have backed Biden's Ukraine campaign and are providing more weapons while ditching Russian energy, Washington has faced resistance elsewhere.
"According to one of the leaked documents, Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s minister of state for foreign affairs, argued in March that her country can "no longer try to maintain a middle ground between China and the United States," the newspaper says.
She stressed in a memo that cooperation with China is "real strategic" for Pakistan. According to the American side, in February, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif consulted with a subordinate on the issue of the anti-Russian resolution of the UN General Assembly. During the discussion, one of Sharif's aides stated that the support for the resolution would interfere with negotiations with Russia on trade and energy issues. Pakistan ultimately abstained from voting on the resolution.
"India, likewise, appeared to avoid taking sides between Washington and Moscow," the article says. According to US intelligence, National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of India, Ajit Doval, expressed New Delhi's readiness to support Moscow on international platforms. Doval also allegedly noted that India "would not deviate from the principled position it had taken in the past" and would not support the said anti-Russian resolution in the UN General Assembly, the newspaper wrote.
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