Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva, denounced on Monday before the Trade and Development Commission of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) that the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States, intensified with a fuel embargo, constitutes a flagrant violation of the norms governing the multilateral trading system.
According to a statement released by the Cuban Mission in Geneva via its Facebook page, the diplomat warned that the nation faces an extraordinarily complex situation as a result of increasingly aggressive unilateral measures that impede access to financing, investment, remittances, and technology for sensitive sectors such as health and food production.
The diplomat explained that Cuba has the right to trade fuel with any country without obstacles contrary to the freedom of international trade, and denounced the application of extraterritorial secondary sanctions against entities in third countries that do business with the island.
Benítez Verson emphasized that through intimidation and blackmail, the U.S. government intends to force other nations to participate in its policies against Cuba, which have been universally condemned at the UN.
The Cuban representative requested UNCTAD’s support in addressing this situation and called for joint action, above political differences, to prevent actions that harm the rights of all states.
IMAGE CREDIT: ACN | Photo: Web of Cuban Diplomatic Missions Abroad
[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
