During the meeting, which started in New Delhi on Monday, Cuban Ambassador to this nation, Juan Carlos Marsan, described this new step by the US administration as criminal, aimed at starving the Cubans.

Before representatives of the country members of the intergovernmental bloc, Marsan called on the international community to condemn Washington’s unilateral measure, which threatens to impose tariffs on countries that trade oil with the island.

Due to this decision, the United States is stifling Cuba’s economic development to an unprecedented degree and placing the nation in a situation that experts compare to the genocide in Gaza.

India’s Secretary for Economic Relations and BRICS Sherpa, Sudhakar Dalela, highlighted, in the meeting, the key priorities of this nation’s chairship, based on a people-centered approach and prioritizing human beings, according to diplomatic sources.

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