Official Communiqué by ALBA-TCP
The members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP, by its Spanish initials) firmly rejected the measure announced by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on 3 June 2020, of including 7 new entities of the Republic of Cuba in the Cuba Restricted List (CRL) of the State Department of the United States.
The interfering, coercive and unilateral measure, in violation of international law, affects financial and tourism institutions in Cuba and demonstrates the criminal interest of tightening the economic, commercial and financial blockade and affecting the Cuban people and families.
The ALBA-TCP countries express their strongest condemnation of this aggression and denounce to the international community this type of criminal measures, especially in times when countries face a serious crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Caracas, 7 June 2020