Nicolas Forissier, Minister Delegate for Europe and Foreign Affairs, said that the dialogue between the U.S. and the Island “must be constructive, but it must also be demanding”
14ymedio / EFE, Paris, March 31, 2026 – France welcomed the talks initiated between the United States and Cuba this Tuesday, intended to achieve a “stabilization” of the situation on the Island, and considered that it is “important that Cuba, especially in matters of human rights and economic openness, show signs of goodwill.”
“With regard to Cuba, since 1992 we have continuously requested from the United Nations that the embargo be lifted. We constantly call for dialogue in order to promote prospects for the stabilization of Cuba,” Nicolas Forissier, Minister Delegate for Europe and Foreign Affairs, said this Tuesday in the French National Assembly.
He was responding to a question from Macron-aligned deputy Frantz Gumbs about Paris’s position regarding the crisis on the Island, which in Forissier’s words is going through a situation of “economic suffocation” that affects “the entire Cuban population in a totally indiscriminate way” and that may have consequences for the stability of the Caribbean region, where France has territories.
France is, within its means, “available for initiatives led by the UN in terms of emergency humanitarian aid”
Forissier indicated that his country supports talks to find a negotiated solution and insisted that the dialogue “must be constructive, but it must also be demanding.”
“And from this point of view, it is important that Cuba, especially in matters of human rights and economic openness, make gestures,” he stressed, while also recalling that the Island is very present within the framework of the French presidency of the G7, which is following the situation “very closely” with “initiatives and exchanges that are underway.”
Regarding the possibilities of humanitarian support for the inhabitants of the Latin American country from Paris, Forissier assured that France is, within its means, “available for initiatives led by the UN in terms of emergency humanitarian aid and in response to calls from the WHO.”
Translated by Regina Anavy
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