The organization underscored in a statement that this new measure taken by US President Donald Trump intensifies the already prolonged and cruel economic, financial, and commercial blockade against the Caribbean country, something that has punished its population for decades.

It considered that this policy, maintained for more than sixty years, is not only a flagrant violation of international law, but also violates the fundamental principles of respect for sovereignty, self-determination, and the peaceful settlement of disputes.

It stated, “The US blockade has been an insurmountable obstacle to the comprehensive development of the Cuban people, generating unjustifiable humanitarian and social impacts that directly affect access to essential medicines, basic foodstuffs, and crucial technologies.”

Families suffer the palpable consequences in their daily lives, it emphasized in the statement sent to Prensa Latina.

It joined, as a coordinating committee, the countless international voices that, “consistently and overwhelmingly, have demanded in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) the immediate and unconditional cessation of this blockade policy.”

The Coordinating Committee finally urged the international community to redouble its diplomatic efforts to put pressure on lifting this measure, which it described as anachronistic.

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