Spanish foreign minister rejects Helms-Button Law

Edited by Ed Newman
2019-04-03 19:09:44

Pinterest
Telegram
Linkedin
WhatsApp

Washington, April 3 (RHC) – Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, publicly rejected the anti-Cuban Helms-Burton Law, following threats by the United States to enforce the law in its entirety. 

The Spanish foreign minister said that his government opposes the activation of title III of the Helms-Burton Law, which allows claims to be filed in U.S. Courts against foreign entities allegedly "trafficking" in properties nationalized after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959. 

According to Spanish news outlet EFE, in a meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Mike Pompeo, Borrell criticized the activation of Title III, aimed at tightening the blockade. 

The top Spanish diplomat pointed out that the measure is widely rejected both by Spain and Europe as a whole.   

As Borrell pointed out, Title III of the Helms-Burton could harm companies, like the Meliá Group which, he noted, "opened its first establishment in Cuba a quarter of a century ago and then expanded under the formula of joint ventures."
 



Commentaries


MAKE A COMMENT
All fields required
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
captcha challenge
up