[Marxistindia] Fwd: Hydroxychloroquine & Rapid Testing Kits

[news from the cpi(m)]

April 12, 2020

Press Statement

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued  
the following statement:

First Indian Consignment of Hydroxychloroquine Arrives in USA
Rapid Testing Kits Bound for Tamilnadu Diverted to USA

After domestic apologists close to the Government had been justifying  
the meek submission to blackmail by the US President Donald Trump for  
easing the export of Hydroxychloroquine on the ground that it was on  
humanitarian grounds, the latest evidence of US hostility underlines  
that such noble ideals will never be reciprocated.

Evidently, President Trump has invoked Korean-War-era Defence  
Production Act, with typical extra territorial jurisdiction, to demand  
that US firms provide more medical supplies to meet domestic demand to  
bluntly justify, “We need these items immediately for domestic use. We  
have to have them." Ironically, a similar ground had premised the  
April 4 GoI ban on all exports related to the pandemic management, was  
torpedoed by the US.

It has now come to light, that there is a delay in receiving the rapid  
test kits for the corona virus ordered from China since the  
consignment meant for India was diverted to the US.

India is not the sole victim of such early colonial age ‘piracy on the  
high seas’! International media has widely reported how country after  
country have been hauling up US for its attempt to block PPE and  
testing kits designated for dealing with their domestic health  
emergency. Sharpest among countries who have hauled up this rogue  
behaviour of the US are Germany, France, Canada, Brazil and poor  
Barbados.


USA has been blocking many countries from accepting medicines, doctors  
& health assistance unconditionally offered by Cuba apart from  
preventing any international assistance to reach Cuba as a consequence  
of its criminal economic embargo. Cuba, apart from combating,  
relatively successfully, Covid, has an unblemished track record of  
international medical solidarity. USA has criminally stopped any help  
reaching Iran invoking it’s unilateral sanctions heaping a grave  
humanitarian crisis leading to preventable deaths.

The Polit Bureau of the CPI (M) strongly condemns  USA’s unilateral  
strong arm methods to subvert the sovereign rights of independent  
countries.   This US intransigence is clearly against the repeated  
pleading of the WHO for international cooperation in battling the  
global pandemic.

The PB urges upon the Modi government to draw proper lessons from this  
obnoxious behaviour of US imperialism. Embracing USA as the top most  
priority cannot provide  any help or relief to the Indian people in  
strengthening the struggle against the pandemic 



For CPI(M) Central Committee Office

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