Sanctions should not impede coronavirus fight, EU diplomat says
Sanctions should not stop the delivery of medical equipment and supplies to countries trying to contain outbreaks of coronavirus, the EU’s top diplomat has said.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, made his comments in a declaration on Friday in which he backed the UN’s call for an immediate global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the pandemic.
“The European Union also stresses that sanctions should not impede the delivery of essential equipment and supplies necessary to fight the coronavirus and limit its spread worldwide,” he said.
US blocks medical aid to Cuba in show of ‘wild west brutality’
CUBA has blasted the continuing US economic blockade warning of a “violation of human rights” after a shipment of vital medical aid from China was stopped from reaching the country on Tuesday.
Washington was accused of acting with “Wild West brutality,” using the Covid-19 outbreak as an opportunity to “strangle the Cuban Revolution.”
“Cuba denounces the fact that medical supplies from Alibaba Foundation to help combat Covid-19 have not arrived in the country due to the criminal US blockade against the island nation,” President Miguel Canel-Diaz blasted.
Cuba goes
As expected, Cuba is once again at the centre of several controversies and, as it is often the case of these cyclic events of media and public crucifixion, the country is the centre of "world heresy", according to several trifling and perpetual Cubanologists
Author:Oni Acosta Llerena | internet@granma.cu
Thousands of people thank Cuba for its internationalism in the fight against coronavirus and demand an end to the US blockade
Almost 7000 people from more than 80 countries have already signed an international Open Letter to thank Cuba for its global efforts in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The letter also demands an end to the criminal US Blockade at this time to help Cuban efforts to defeat the virus at home and abroad.
Joint Statement by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA and the Cuban Council of Churches
Havana, Cuba - Washington, USA
March 26, 2020