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Cuba is grateful for global support for removal from US SSOT list

Havana, Jan 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuba expressed gratitude for the global support for its removal from the US list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism, a decision made by the White House on Tuesday.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry described the decision as limited but in the right direction and in line with the global demand expressed by almost all countries in various forums.

However, Washington maintains the unjust and criminal economic blockade against Cuba that causes suffering to the people, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

This is a decision in the right direction and in line with the sustained and firm demand from the government and people of Cuba, and with the broad, emphatic and reiterated call from numerous governments, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, from Cuban residents abroad, from political, religious and social organizations, and from several political figures in the United States and other countries.

After thanking everyone for their contribution and sensitivity, the Cuban Government stressed that the measure end specific coercive measures that, along with many others, cause serious damage to the Cuban economy, with a severe effect on the population.

“This is and has been a topic present in Cuba’s official meetings with the Government of the United States,” the text added.

However, the Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) recalled that the economic blockade and a good part of the dozens of coercive measures that have been implemented since 2017 to tighten it remain in force, with full extraterritorial effect and in violation of international law and the human rights of all Cubans.

In this regard, it exemplified that the illegal and aggressive persecution against fuel supplies that Cuba has a legitimate right to import continues.

The MINREX also mentioned the permanence of what it described as “cruel and absurd persecution of Cuba’s legitimate international medical cooperation agreements with other countries, thus threatening to deprive millions of people of health services and limiting the potential of the Cuban public health system.”

Cuba’s international financial transactions or those of any national that are related to Cuba remain under prohibition and reprisals. Merchant ships that dock in Cuba also continue to be threatened, the MINREX noted.

The blockade also affects the US people, since, according to the Foreign Ministry, “all US citizens, companies and subsidiary entities of a corporation of that country are prohibited from trading with Cuba or Cuban entities, except for very restricted and regulated exceptions.

“Harassment, intimidation and threats against the national of any country who intends to trade with Cuba or invest in this country continues to be official policy of the United States.”

The document also stated that Cuba continues to be a destination from which the US Government prohibits its citizens.

It stressed that the economic war remains and persists in posing the fundamental obstacle to the development and recovery of Cuba’s economy with a high human cost for the population, and continues to be a stimulus to emigration.

Cuba is not unaware that the Government of the United States “could reverse in the future the measures adopted today, as has occurred on other occasions and as a sign of the lack of legitimacy, ethics, consistency and reason in its conduct against Cuba.”

However, it maintains that it will continue to “confront and denounce this policy of economic warfare, the interference programs and the disinformation and discredit operations financed each year with tens of millions of dollars from the United States federal budget.

Despite this, Cuba expressed its willingness “to develop a relationship of respect with that country, based on dialogue and non-interference in the internal affairs of both, despite the differences.”

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