Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Geneva, Feb. 7th - Experts of the United Nations Human Rights Council today demanded the government of the United States to put an end to the blockade against Cuba and to exclude it from the List of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
A note released here by the Permanent Mission of the largest of the Antilles to the UN stresses that several special procedures mandate holders of the UN Human Rights Council issued the communication and denounced the serious effects that this decision has on the human rights of the Cuban people.
It also affects the country's commercial and financial relations and the national efforts to respond to the accumulated negative effects of the blockade, the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, the text stresses.
The UN experts qualified the decision of Donald Trump's government as an act of unilateral coercion, incompatible with the United Nations Charter and International Law and in violation of UN resolutions on the illegality of unilateral coercive measures and on the need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the government of the United States against Cuba.
They stressed that the accumulated damages caused by the blockade amount to more than 164 billion dollars and have a worrying impact on the country's food security, inflation, the increase in food prices, the decrease in agricultural production and the restrictions on the import of agricultural machinery, spare parts, fertilizers and other inputs.
The joint communication recalls previous communications on the subject sent to the U.S. government, which have gone unanswered, and calls on the U.S. government to comply with its international human rights obligations.
The signatories also demand the removal of Cuba from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism and an end to all unilateral coercive measures against the country, including the economic, commercial and financial blockade. (PL) (Photo: Taken from Internet)
