Author: International Newsroom | internacional@granma.cu
June 21, 2021 11:06:22 PM
In a report sent to the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, the European Union (EU) asserted that the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba also affects its interests and, consequently, expressed its rejection of the extraterritorial nature of that policy, reported Prensa Latina.
The report - released this Monday and sent to Guterres, who by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly must make an assessment of the need to end the US siege - maintains the condemnatory position that the multinational bloc has held before the conclave in the debates about the blockade.
It emphasizes the ways in which Washington's unilateral measures violate the rules accepted by countries for international trade and how growing hostility closes doors to "the possibility of engaging with the Cuban people" and hinders the development of the "incipient private sector. from Cuba".
In addition to drawing attention to the negative economic impacts of the White House's asphyxiation policy against the Biggest Antilles, the EU highlighted the obvious effects on the standard of living of Cubans, including humanitarian damage.
Among such genocidal manifestations, he exemplified that "the embargo constitutes an additional obstacle in Cuba's ability to face the COVID-19 pandemic."
He called on the US to stop applying pressure on foreign investors willing to do business with the archipelago, and warned that, to that end, it would use instruments to protect the economic activities of its citizens and companies.
Likewise, the EU defended its Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba, which has been applied provisionally from the 1st. November 2017, PL stressed.
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