Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Geneva, Apr 30.- Cuba denounced the hostility of the United States against the country and the imposition of new aggressive measures to tighten the blockade, at the World Trade Organization (WTO), diplomatic sources informed on Tuesday.
'They are actions (...) whose fundamental aim is to impose colonial tutelage on Cuba,' the ambassador before the United Nations, Pedro Luis Pedroso, said at the meeting of the WTO Trade and Development Committee, during a session on small and vulnerable economies.
The diplomat recalled that recently, the US Government announced the activation of new measures to tighten the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba for nearly 60 years.
He particularly referred to the enforcement of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which will allow US courts to process lawsuits against Cuban and foreign companies, although they are outside US jurisdiction.
'That is a legal aberration', said Pedroso, adding that until now, successive US governments had suspended the enforcement of that clause, including President Donald Trump in his first two years in office.
'They are actions established in the Helms-Burton Act that have been rejected for a long time by the international community, and our people have condemned them since their promulgation and implementation in 1996, and whose main aim is to impose colonial tutelage on Cuba,' Pedroso stressed.
According to the ambassador, all these provisions and those that additionally make up the legal framework of the blockade 'make it difficult for my country's trade to operate normally and damage third counties that want to do business with Cuba, in a frank violation of the standards established by the WTO'. (Prensa Latina)
