French solidarity raised its voice on Friday against the United States’ attempts to strangle Cuba’s economy and expressed its support for the Cuban people in a resolution, the text of which was released in this capital.
The resolution adopted by the Regional Council of Burgundy-Franche-Comté highlights that for more than 60 years, Cuba has suffered an economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed unilaterally by the United States.
This blockade limits the island’s access to international financing, medical equipment, spare parts, and, especially critically, hydrocarbons and the equipment necessary to produce electricity, the text emphasizes.
This situation leads to shortages of food and medicine, prolonged power outages affecting hospitals, homes, and essential services, and a deterioration of health indicators, the council emphasized.
Infant mortality, which for a long time remained below 5 per 1,000 live births, reached 8.5 during the first half of 2025, while the economic cost to the country is estimated at several billion dollars annually.
Since the beginning of 2026, Cuba’s energy situation has deteriorated to an unprecedented degree in more than 30 years, and Cuba has entered an acute humanitarian crisis, according to the proposal presented by Muriel Ternant, president of the group of communist representatives from Burgundy-Franche-Comté.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that this fuel shortage now threatens the country’s food supply, disrupts drinking water networks, and impairs the functioning of hospitals, the council stated.
Every year since 1992, the United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution by a large majority calling for the lifting of this blockade, the council noted.
France, like all member states of the European Union, consistently votes in favor of this resolution, but this French diplomatic position, expressed and reiterated at the UN, must now be translated into concrete actions, the text concluded.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
