US sanctions on Cuba ‘crime against humanity’: FM

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has described the sanctions imposed by the United States on his country as a “crime against humanity”, saying that the economic, trade, and financial bans have directly targeted the welfare and future of the people in Cuba.

In a news conference held in Havana on Tuesday, Rodriguez told reporters that the US government is continuing to disrupt a United Nations process aimed at forcing Washington to lift its embargo on Cuba.

He said the US is using all of its diplomatic capacities to intimidate UN officials and diplomats from other countries in order to obstruct a UN General Assembly (UNGA) meeting planned for July 7, which is to discuss the economic and trade embargo on Cuba.

The top Cuban diplomat said that his country is not a threat to the US and can never be such a threat, as he insisted that US sanctions are a threat to the human security and livelihood of the Cuban nation.

Rodriguez also condemned Washington's threats of using military force against Cuba, saying his country has not hosted any foreign military power, except for US forces that have been illegally based in Guantanamo.

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He said that Cuba will never give up its national sovereignty and independence under foreign pressure.

The US has imposed a total trade embargo on Cuba since the early 1960s and the victory of the Cuban revolution.

Washington has intensified its economic pressure on Cuba in recent years, with US President Donald Trump openly touting regime change in the island nation.

The UNGA is expected to end its July 7 debate on Cuba with another symbolic resolution calling on the US to lift its decades-long embargo on Cuban trade.

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