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Lawmakers Express Rejection to US Blockade against Cuba
The economic, financial and commercial blockade the United States has imposed to Cuba for more than 50 years is a failed and genocide policy the international community almost unanimously rejects today, the island''s legislators stated.
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The economic, financial and commercial blockade the United States has imposed to Cuba for more than 50 years is a failed and genocide policy the international community almost unanimously rejects today, the island''s legislators stated.
The issue of the blockade maintained on Cuba by successive U.S. governments was debated during a hearing of the National Peoples' Power Assembly held yesterday at the Jose Antonio Echeverria Higher Institute for Technical Studies in this capital.
During the debate, the president of the International Relations Commission at the Legislative, Yolanda Ferrer, stated the extraterritorial nature of that measure to which she described as a failed policy that also lacerates the sovereignty of all States.
The blockade, due to its essence, purposes, impact and political, legal and administrative structure on which it is based, is an act of genocide, in virtue of the Convention for the Prevention and the Sanction of that crime adopted in Geneva in 1948, the legislator noted.
As of very conservative estimates and considering the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market, the economic damage caused to Cuba amounted to $1.12 trillion USD. What to say about social affectations!, Ferrer denounced.
The president of the Commission on Constitutional and Judicial Affairs of the Parliament, Jose Luis Toledo, stated that the destruction of the Cuban Revolution has been the obsession by U.S. administrations, and to try to achieve it, they have not spared ways, he said.
That blockade against Cuba is an action of illegality in which the American government systematically incurs towards the most elementary norms of international law, Toledo said.
About this issue, he referred to the world rejection to this policy expressed by the UN General Assembly for 22 consecutive years.
Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno denounced the implacable persecution of Cuban financial transactions as one of the most visible features of the American attempt to overthrow the national economy.
The issue of the blockade maintained on Cuba by successive U.S. governments was debated during a hearing of the National Peoples' Power Assembly held yesterday at the Jose Antonio Echeverria Higher Institute for Technical Studies in this capital.
During the debate, the president of the International Relations Commission at the Legislative, Yolanda Ferrer, stated the extraterritorial nature of that measure to which she described as a failed policy that also lacerates the sovereignty of all States.
The blockade, due to its essence, purposes, impact and political, legal and administrative structure on which it is based, is an act of genocide, in virtue of the Convention for the Prevention and the Sanction of that crime adopted in Geneva in 1948, the legislator noted.
As of very conservative estimates and considering the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market, the economic damage caused to Cuba amounted to $1.12 trillion USD. What to say about social affectations!, Ferrer denounced.
The president of the Commission on Constitutional and Judicial Affairs of the Parliament, Jose Luis Toledo, stated that the destruction of the Cuban Revolution has been the obsession by U.S. administrations, and to try to achieve it, they have not spared ways, he said.
That blockade against Cuba is an action of illegality in which the American government systematically incurs towards the most elementary norms of international law, Toledo said.
About this issue, he referred to the world rejection to this policy expressed by the UN General Assembly for 22 consecutive years.
Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno denounced the implacable persecution of Cuban financial transactions as one of the most visible features of the American attempt to overthrow the national economy.