JAKARTA - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla expressed gratitude to China for sending 15,000 tons of rice to Cuba.
"We are grateful for the delivery of 15,000 tons of rice to Cuba, part of the total 60,000 tons donated as humanitarian aid by the Chinese party, government, and people," Rodriguez wrote on the X platform as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, May 27.
Rodriguez said the shipment was a proof of solidarity and fraternal relations between the two countries amid the difficult situation facing Cuba and the world today.
On January 29, the United States imposed tariffs on imports from oil-supplying countries to Cuba and declared a state of emergency due to Cuba's alleged threat to US national security.
Havana says the United States uses an energy embargo to strangle the island's economy and worsen the living conditions of its people.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, on May 3, stressed that the US military threat to Cuba had reached an unprecedented level. He warned that aggression against the island would be met with the determination of the Cuban people to defend their sovereignty and independence.
In addition, the US Department of Justice on May 20 indicted former Cuban President Raul Castro, as well as five Cuban military officers, in connection with the shooting down of two planes in 1996 in connection with the Miami-based exile group, Brothers to the Rescue.
Havana called the accusations a political provocation and stressed that Cuba was acting in self-defense after repeated violations of the country's airspace by the group's aircraft.
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