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US Blockade of Cuba Harms Europe
Cuban National Assembly
President Ricardo Alarcon
asserted on Monday that the
blockade imposed on his country
by the United States also
affects the European Union, and
struggle against it is defense
of EU sovereignty.
The legislative leader told
Prensa Latina that although the
intent is to hurt Cuba, to
implement this measure is to
ride roughshod over a European
nation s rights.
He explained that this arbitrary
policy is applied outside the
United States, and it prohibits,
for example that a European
company sell to or buy anything
from Cuba.
Alarcon called the economic
pressure against his people
"genocidal" and the US has
applied a policy on countries
that trade with Cuba, many of
which are EU members, as if they
were its vassals.
He regretted that as yet the
regional bloc has not issued a
joint declaration recognizing
specifically that those coercive
measures violate international
law.
Only their legislators have
individually expressed their
opposition to the blockade,
Alarcon said, after speaking in
an interactive forum about the
Bush Plan and intensification of
the blockade on his country.
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