On February, 05, 2016 the "Venceremos" public movement and the Workers' Union of Moscow, together with the allied organizations' representatives, have conducted a sanctioned picket line near the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. There have come more people than it has been declared, and it concerned the "valiant" police. The picket line had a success. The Workers' Union of Moscow co-chairman and the "Venceremos" public movement Political council member comrade Lashin has read out the appeal to the Embassy:
After the main picket line had been finished, we have come to the place of the traditional single-person picket near the Embassy entrance. Comrade Lashin clarifies:
The following appeal was handed over to the Embassy:
It is more than a year ago when we, the movement for Latin America peoples' sovereignty participants, together with the friends all over the world, have achieved the Five Cuban anti-terrorist heroes liberation. The U.S. President has acknowledged repressive anti-Cuban policy "non-working". Diplomatic relations are re-established, political dialogue is arranged, possibilities of citizens' trips are expanded. Cuba is excluded from the list of countries accused of "terrorism assistance" where it should have not been included, taking into account its significant contribution to fighting this evil.
However, for full-fledged normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations, it is necessary to lift all the bans for trade and economic, financial and other connections. It is more than 20 years that the world community denounces the blockade of a sovereign state. 191 votes against two – those of the U.S. and Israel – were given for its cancellation at the 70th session of the U.N. General Assembly. As well, official contacts with Venezuela are inconsistent with the "executive decree" declaring it a "menace to national security" and introducing illegal sanctions.
Unfortunately, influence of anti-Cuban and anti-Venezuelan lobby, historically connected to international right-wing extremist trend of fascist type, is great in the U.S. The international terrorism expansion shows extreme danger of such trends. We are sure that one of the conditions for terrorism elimination is taking all measures for normalization of relations with Cuba declared by the U.S. President a year ago. However, these measures are insufficient.
We appeal to the U.S. Government and to all the responsible forces in the Congress:
- to stop the unlawful practice of financial and economic sanctions against enterprises and citizens of third countries for trade and economic contacts with Cuba and other states, undesirable for official Washington;
- to lift the anti-Cuban embargo, the Torricelli and Helms-Burton laws and all other acts of Cuba blockade as null and void in virtue of their contradiction to the U.S.' international obligations as the U.N. founding member and to the international law norms;
- to fulfill the long-term promise on closing the "detention center" at the Guantanamo military base, to start negotiations on returning this territory to Cuba according to the common position of the countries of the region expressed at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) January summit;
- to prohibit the armed anti-Cuban, anti-Venezuelan and other extremists' activity in the U.S. as inconsistent with the U.N. Charter, with national law, with provision of international peace and security;
- to bring to liability those culpable of terrorists concealing and connivance to them, including fabrication of the Cuban Five court process by mass media bribery and embracery on jury;
- to grant amnesty and to liberate Ana Belen Montes convicted unjustly for informing the legitimate authority of Cuba on unlawful actions against the neighbouring state being prepared in the U.S.;
- to continue investigation of crimes of the international ultra-right net which had been preparing the terrorist plan "Condor", attempts against F.Castro, H.Chavez, N.Maduro, E.Morales, R.Correa and other Latin American politicians, subversive actions at economic objects with active participation of Luis Posada Carriles and similar persons; to extradite L.Posada Carriles to Venezuela for bringing him for trial for the Cuban plane explosion in 1976 and other acts of terror;
- to prevail on Columbian authorities for assistance to the quickest liberation of all the political prisoners and prisoners of war, to guarantee observation of human rights and achievement of lasting peace; to return freedom and the possibility to make his contribution to completing of peace process to one of its initiators Simon Trinidad unjustly confined in the U.S. prison;
- to lift the "executive decree" on sanctions against Venezuela, to stop intervening into its affairs; to prevail on parliamentary opposition for assistance to constructive dialogue between the branches of government;
- to grant amnesty and to liberate the eldest political prisoner of the U.S. and Latin America – the Puerto-Rican Oscar López Rivera; to grant the people of Puerto-Rico the right for self-determination, according to the U.N. and CELAC position;
- to liberate the anti-racist civil activist, political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal serving his life imprisonment;
- not to lend military assistance to Kiev regime severely violating human rights; to support the initiative of creating the international tribunal for investigation of war crimes committed during the so-called anti-terrorist operation in Donbass, as well as in Odessa and other regions; to publish the satellite data on the Malaysian airliner crush in July 2014; to demand from the Kiev officials to hold direct negotiations with the elected bodies of Donbass;
- to lift the unlawful sanctions against Syria and Iran fighting heavy battles against international terrorism; to support the anti-terrorist measures of Russia and other countries, to co-ordinate actions with them;
- to prevail on authorities of Israel, Saudi Arabia and other countries to stop export of violence to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, to realize the acknowledged right of Arab people of Palestine for its sovereignty;
- to demand that the President and Government of Turkey admit their liability for connivance to terrorists and destruction of the Russian plane during its anti-terrorist mission, to investigate the crimes objectively and to punish all those guilty by law;
- to abstain from placing extra troops and arms in Europe and at the Far East as a provocative action posing a threat to universal peace;
- to prevail on South Korean authorities (the Republic of Korea) for assistance to democratization of this country, first of all, to lifting the law "On National Security" severely violating the fundamental human rights and freedoms, and to liberating of persons convicted on its basis, including the "Korean Dozen" – the twelve health workers of the Pusan city, as well as Han Sang-gyun and other leaders of trade union movement and all the arrested by the case on mass protest actions in Seoul in November 2015;
- to stop provocative military maneuvers near the DPRK borders, to withdraw all the U.S. military bases and servicemen from the territories of Japan and South Korea.
The Executive Board and Public Council members:
A.A.Lashin
E.I.Fradkin
A.V.Kharlamenko
S.V.Khristenko
V.N.Chechentsev
N.A.Yatsunov
Photos by E.Sidorenkova, P.Borisov, V.I.Shishkarev
