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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday called on
the U.S. government to lift its decades-long trade embargo, or
blockade, against the country, reports citing .
'The U.S. blockade has caused Cuba losses valued at 3.806
billion U.S. dollars between August 2021 and February 2022,'
Rodriguez told a press conference in the country's capital
Havana.
The call comes ahead of the Cuban government's annual submission
to the UN General Assembly of a draft resolution calling for an end
to the embargo. The General Assembly is scheduled to discuss and
vote on the draft resolution in early November.
U.S. trade sanctions, Rodriguez said, severely limit Cuba's
access to food, medicine, technology and inputs on the
international market.
'The world would be a better place without the U.S. blockade
against Cuba,' he added.
First imposed in 1962, the embargo was broadened by former U.S.
President Donald Trump, who put in place 243 more sanctions,
including banning all flights from the United States to Cuban
destinations except for Havana, and capping remittances Cuban
Americans can send to their families back home.
The current U.S. administration allowed airlines to resume
flights to other Cuban cities and lifted the cap on remittances,
but the web of sanctions against Cuba remains largely in place.
For 29 times in a row, the UN General Assembly has voted in
favor of the resolution urging the United States to end its embargo
against Cuba.
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