Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, is one of those who has asked to eliminate coercive measures against Venezuela, Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Cuba, among others.
The day before, in an official note, he pointed out that "for public health reasons and to protect the rights and lives of millions of people in those countries, sectoral sanctions should be eased or suspended."
The former Chilean president added that "hampering medical efforts in one country increases the risk for all others," and therefore called for special flexibility in sending medical equipment to those nations.
Previously, António Guterres , Secretary General of the UN, called for a truce of global scope for all the conflicts that plague the planet and that disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged.
"World solidarity is not only a moral imperative, but it is for the benefit of all," said Guterres .
Also the World Church Service joined the demand for the lifting of the coercive measures of the United States amid the impact of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus, like a group of North American economists.
The Communist Party of Spain and Cubans residing in countries of the European Union adhered to the call, under the criterion that, under current conditions, it is doubly genocidal to maintain this policy of sanctions against Cuba.
The island has denounced that the blockade, for 60 years, aims at health and food to promote hunger and disease in the people and thus undermine its support for the Revolution.
Official reports show how it hinders the acquisition of technologies, raw materials, diagnostic means and medicines for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, which must be purchased in distant markets and at higher prices.
Between April 2018 and March 2019 alone, Cuba made 57 requests to US companies to buy supplies for its sanitation system, and only three responded to say that they could not do so due to the blockade.
A report by the Caribbean nation to the UN General Assembly indicates that in that same period the damage to health amounted to more than 104 million, higher by around six million the previous year.
Despite this repeated denunciation, the United States continues without listening to the international community, which on 28 consecutive occasions and by an overwhelming majority has approved a resolution in favor of lifting this policy. (PL)
