BRICS Offers a Real Alternative to Transform the International Order: Diaz-Canel

BRICS, 14 Jul 2025

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (R), BRICS, Brazil, 2025
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Present and future generations deserve a world of peace and security, the Cuban president stressed.

7 Jul 2025 – Today, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel attended the BRICS leaders’ summit in Brazil.  Specifically, he spoke during the session on “Environment, COP30, and Global Health,” held in Belem.

From Brazil, Diaz-Canel argued that the U.S.-controlled international order perpetuates a structure of domination that reinforces inequality and poverty in Global South nations. Below is his full speech:

“I must begin by thanking, on behalf of my country and my people, our inclusion in BRICS as a partner. Today, BRICS represents hope—the hope that multilateralism can be saved from the chaos and dysfunction into which the arrogance of a few has plunged the United Nations.

Born 80 years ago to prevent war as a solution to conflicts, the U.N. now requires deep reforms long demanded by the Global South for over half a century. This octogenarian institution is dangerously fragmented and severely threatened by the erosion of multilateralism, heightening risks to international peace and security.

The horrors of recent weeks and months demonstrate where the diplomacy of force leads. The U.S. government, wielding its undeniable military, economic, and financial power—though lacking moral authority—consistently disregards international law and the U.N. Charter.

It withdraws from international bodies, declares plans to seize and annex territories, promotes supremacist ideologies, carries out violent and racist mass deportations of migrants, and no longer hides its self-serving geopolitical ambitions. This is the same power that backed Israel’s recent aggression against Iran and directly attacked the Persian nation by bombing three nuclear facilities.

Cuba reiterates its solidarity with the people and government of the Islamic Republic of Iran following Israel’s aggression and strongly condemns the U.S.-led attack. These actions violate the U.N. Charter and international law, as well as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

We also firmly condemn the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, perpetrated by Israel with the unwavering political, military, and financial support of the United States. The U.S. government ensures the Zionist regime’s impunity and obstructs U.N. Security Council action through its undemocratic veto power.

A comprehensive, just, and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essential to achieving peace in the Middle East, especially at this critical juncture in international relations. Until this brutality ends, we remain in the prehistory of what was once envisioned as a hopeful peace project: the so-called United Nations.

That is why I speak of hope. Against this threatening backdrop, BRICS emerges—a group whose member and partner nations, despite their vast differences and disparities in development, advance shared ideals of peace, dialogue, mutual respect, cooperation, and solidarity.

The group’s commitment to a more just and inclusive international order is inspiring. Without such an order, sustainable development—long denied to nations shackled by centuries of colonialism and neocolonialism—will remain out of reach.

To achieve this, we must fundamentally reform the current international financial architecture and its opaque, undemocratic institutions, designed to perpetuate the exclusion and exploitation of Global South nations. Equally essential is inclusive and democratic governance of artificial intelligence, ensuring all nations benefit while preventing its use against peace and international law.

Present and future generations deserve a world of peace and security, where social justice, cultural and religious pluralism, and democratic access to science and technology prevail. A world where all human rights are realized without politicization or double standards, based on cooperation and respect for each nation’s right to choose its political, economic, and social system—free from external interference. A world without cruel blockades or unilateral coercive measures that violate international law.

After six decades of a foreign-imposed economic blockade—repeatedly tightened with the explicit aim of provoking social unrest—Cuba now faces another illegal act of imperial overreach.

We arrive at this summit amid news of a new U.S. presidential memorandum imposing additional coercive measures aimed at suffocating our economy. This document revives the imperial delusion that outsiders can dictate who governs our nation and how—all in the name of so-called democracy!

No other country has had to build its social and development project under the prolonged, cruel, and systematic siege of history’s most powerful nation. The blockade is an act of aggression, enforced through offensive extraterritorial measures that violate all nations’ sovereignty. Rooted in the past, it is unjustifiable and must end.

Unilateral lists and certifications—like Cuba’s baseless designation as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’—have no place in the 21st century. The U.S. has no moral authority or international mandate to judge Cuba or any other nation.

To confront shared challenges, humanity needs no blockades, false supremacism, or exploitation. What we urgently need is respect for our differences, more dialogue, cooperation, and integration. We need a renewed commitment to multilateralism to ensure peaceful coexistence and equitable, inclusive, and sustainable development for all.

That is why we must nurture and strengthen BRICS—an alliance we join with the noble aspiration to contribute and learn. In this endeavor, you can always count on Cuba!”

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