Cuba again Expresses Will to Serious Dialogue with U.S.

United Nations, Oct 30.- Cuba reiterated yesterday before the UN General Assembly its will to go forward toward normalization of links with the United States, in a serious dialogue between equals and respect for its independence.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez expressed before the UN session its stand, expression of its will of peace and respectful coexistence of the Cuban government. The dangers threatening the human existence are severe and imminent, so it is indispensable a deep change in the way of dealing and solving the problems and conflicts of the world, he said.

Rodríguez detailed it is necessary to go through dialogue and cooperation, instead of selfishness and the philosophy of looting, to the use of force and coercitive economic sanctions who, silently, also hurt and kill.

It is true that between both governments there are big differences -he said- but the only productive way is to find a civilized way to treat each other as neighbors, under the respect to sovereignty and self-determination.

So, we would have to make dialogue prevalí, negotiation and even cooperation in whatever area is possible and convenient, to benefit both peoples and hemispheric relations, the minister said minutes before voting in the General Assembly to ratify for 22 consecutive years world rejection in that forum on U.S. blockade.

Cuban minister Rodríguez said the bilateral approach can be achieved and is useful, as the recent resumption of migration talks and postal service, as well as contacts to respond to oil spills, marine and air search and rescue operations, together with air security.

He stressed that president Barack Obama has the power to end the siege on Cuba.

For the diplomat it is important to listen to the United States public opinion and Cuban emigrants, whose majority supports normalization of relations and are opposed to the blockade and the prohibition to travel to the island.

Why not accept we are a nation and an independent State, equally sovereign. Wouldn`t it be better to pragmatically renounce to ideological obstinacy, inherited from the previous two generations of US politicians, he sentenced.

Rodriguez denounced before the Assembly the worsening of unilateral sanctions and the human damage caused by the blockade, which he described as genocide.(Prensa Latina)