The official website of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Norwegian activists strongly denounced the U.S. blockade of Cuba, kept in place for more than six decades, at a demonstration organized by Norway-Cuba Friendship Association on the occasion of Cuban National Rebellion Day.
Critical statements were heard at the event, such as that of Syver Kleve Kolstad, secretary general of the Red Youth, who stressed that the said policy only seeks to destroy any country that challenges U.S. hegemony.
“The fight against the blockade is not with the government, but with the Cuban people”, the youth leader remarked as she highlighted the human impact of the restrictions on access to foods and medicines, the publication points out.
Along the same lines, Paulius Eidukas, a communist leader from Oslo and Akershus, said that the blockade violates fundamental human rights and hinders the sovereign development of the Caribbean nation, as does Cuba’s inclusion on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The participants reasserted their solidarity with the island and praised the democratic values it upholds throughout the world.
