Cuba Urges Nigeria and Global Support to End 64-Year US Sanctions

Written on 25/10/2024
Cuba MinRex

Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria, Miriam Morales Palmero, has called on Nigeria and other nations to pressure the United States to lift the 64-year-old economic blockade and sanctions on Cuba.

The appeal was made during a press conference in Abuja ahead of an upcoming vote at the United Nations General Assembly, scheduled for October 29, 2024, where the issue of the US embargo on Cuba will be addressed.

 



The envoy who applauded Nigeria for always standing by Cuba, said the country’s friendship and alliance is needed at the time more than ever, noting that with the support of Nigeria and other African countries, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, her country will be free from the blockade.

While decrying the injustice of the prolonged blockade policy put in place in 1960 by the US on Cuba, Palmero said it has made negative impacts in various sectors of the Cuban political, social, and economic life, calling for the immediate lifting of the blockade against her country.

She noted that the US government started the blockade on March 14, 1958, when it banned weapons sales to Cuba via an arms embargo and later extended to a bigger ban on all exports to Cuba, food and medicine excluded.

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