Havana, March 23, 2021. The third Cuba-European Union Unilateral Coercive Measures Dialogue will take place next Thursday, March 25, in virtual format, as a continuation of the meeting held in November 2019 in Havana.
This meeting is also held, by virtue of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement concluded between Cuba and the European Union in 2016 and put into force, provisionally, in 2017.
The main issues to be addressed will be the imposition of unilateral coercive measures as a means of exerting political and economic pressure against the States, as well as the legal and practical areas of existing legislation in the European Union to counteract the extraterritorial application of laws imposed by third countries. .
The Cuban delegation, chaired by the general director a.i. Department of Multilateral Affairs and International Law of the Foreign Ministry, María del Carmen Herrera Caseiro, will attend this mechanism to denounce the intensification of the blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba in the context of confrontation with COVID-19, a policy that constitutes the set of unilateral coercive measures with the longest application in history.
As part of this Dialogue, representatives of Cuban and European civil society will exchange tomorrow, Wednesday, March 24, on the damage caused by these measures.
(Cubaminrex)