Havana, April 23.- Cuba and the European Union (EU) will talk tomorrow in Brussels (Belgium) about unilateral coercive measures, including the United States blockade, the Island's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported today.
In the exchange, which continues the one held in March 2021 in virtual format, the parties will discuss the effects of the imposition of unilateral coercive measures as a means of exerting political and economic pressure against States, the source detailed.
They will analyze the legal and practical areas of existing legislation in the EU to counteract the extraterritorial application of laws imposed by third countries, as well as the treatment of the issue in multilateral forums.
The Cuban delegation, chaired by the general director of Multilateral Affairs and International Law of the Foreign Ministry, Rodolfo Benítez, will update on the intensification of the blockade imposed by the United States against the Cuban people.
It will also report on and the effects of the arbitrary and unjustified inclusion of Cuba in the unilateral List of countries supposedly sponsoring terrorism, prepared by the Department of State, and the effects of that policy on the cooperation projects between Cuba and the EU will be evaluated.
This meeting is held under the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement concluded between the parties in 2016 and put into force, provisionally, in 2017, which is in its fourth cycle of implementation.
The EU delegation at the meeting will be headed by the deputy director general for the Americas of the European External Action Service, Pelayo Castro, and will also be made up of other senior officials of the European diplomatic service. (Text and photo: PL)
