I strongly reject unjustified expulsion of 2 officials from Permanent Mission of #Cuba to the #UN & increased restrictions of movement imposed on our diplomats & their families. Allegations that they engaged in actions incompatible with their diplomatic status is a gross slander.
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) September 19, 2019
Havana, Cuba.- "The accusation that they have performed acts incompatible with their diplomatic status is a vulgar slander," wrote Rodríguez Parrilla on Twitter.
Expulsion of 2 diplomats from Cuban Mission to the UN and increased restrictions of movement imposed on all others are intended to cause an escalation that may lead to the shutting down of both embassies, to further tighten the blockade and create tensions between both countries.
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) September 19, 2019
The island's top diplomat added that the main purpose of the measure, announced Thursday by State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, is to provoke a diplomatic escalation leading to the closing of bilateral embassies, strengthening the blockade and creating more tensions between the two countries.
The announcement takes place just days before the UN General Assembly high-level segment, that gathers world leaders from all over the world, and a few weeks before the annual vote in that body on the Cuban-sponsored resolution demanding the end of the US economic blockade on the island.
According to Ortagus, the expulsion "is due to the diplomats' attempts to conduct influence operations against the United States."
Cuban diplomats, who have been submitted for decades to a restricted movement of 25 miles from Columbus Circle in Manhattan, will now see their movement limited exclusively to the island of Manhattan, a decision with no antecedent for other mission accredited to the international body. (RHC)
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