At a press conference, Mao rejected the memorandum aimed at tightening U.S. policy toward Cuba, signed last Monday by President Donald Trump.

For more than 60 years, the United States has imposed a brutal blockade and illegal sanctions on Cuba, seriously violating the island’s right to livelihood and development, transgressing the basic norms governing international relations and causing profound damage to the Cuban people, the spokeswoman recalled.

China firmly supports Cuba on the path of development that suits its national conditions and opposes Washington’s unilateral sanctions under pretext of so-called freedom and democracy, she added.

The spokeswoman stressed that lifting sanctions against Cuba and removing it from the list of ‘state sponsors of terrorism’ is also a shared call of the international community.

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