NEW YORK (Dispatches) - Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel during a UN address strongly censured the U.S.-led messy withdrawal from Afghanistan after decades-long occupation, stressing that Washington inherits a history of foreign policy disasters.
Afghanistan was just one example Díaz-Canel, during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, used to attack U.S. foreign policy, which he said relied on the “pernicious use and abuse of measures of economic coercion”.
“Afghanistan is not an isolated case. It has been evidence that where the United States intervenes, there is an increase in instability, deaths, suffering and enduring scars,” he said in a pre-recorded video.
“Occupation only leaves destruction, and no country has the right to impose its will on sovereign nations,” he said, adding, “The U.S. government is threatening, extorting and pressuring sovereign states.”
Following U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to fully withdraw the American troops from Afghanistan, the government swiftly fell in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, amid the Taliban’s seizure of the entire country.