According to Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, the meeting scheduled for June will not discuss issues such as racism, women's rights and marginalization.
Nor will the debate on inequality in access to health services, nor the impact of coercive measures on nations, be on the agenda, said the government representative.
According to the deputy foreign minister, Washington's official position is that there are no invitations to anyone yet for the meeting scheduled in the city of Los Angeles, but the intention is to exclude Cuba from the summit.
The possible omission of the island, along with that of Venezuela and Nicaragua, generated discontent and caused several governments in the region to announce their absence from the meeting if the hosts insist on that claim.
I am hopeful that President Joe Biden will rectify and invite everyone to the Summit of the Americas, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recently said.
"If a country does not have the capacity to ensure the participation of all, it should not assume the commitment to hold a summit in its territory," Fernández de Cossío emphasized on the Mesa Redonda television program.
As he commented in that space, the United States maintains a policy of hostility towards Cuba, aimed at altering the socio-economic order, isolating the Caribbean nation in the international arena and promoting a constant campaign of discredit.
Last Monday Washington announced measures of supposed flexibility with Havana, such as the elimination of limits on remittances, the reauthorization of the so-called people-to-people trips and the family reunification program, all suspended by the Donald Trump administration (2017- 2021).
Regular and charter flights to the Cuban provinces would also be restored, consular services at its embassy in Havana and other provisions would be expanded.
The measures are considered "a limited step in the right direction," since they do not modify the blockade imposed by the United States for more than six decades, nor "the fraudulent inclusion in its list of countries that sponsor terrorism," the vice chancellor stressed.
Nor do they modify most of the maximum pressure coercive provisions in force since the Trump administration, with a great impact on the Cuban people, he added.
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