Representatives from Spain, France, and Italy, and at the European level, supported the final declaration of the forum convened by the Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop) association. The text calls for raising the accompaniment of Cuba to a higher level in the form of a strategic alliance against the economic, commercial and financial blockade.

Regarding the blockade that Washington has imposed on Cuba for more than 60 years, participants demanded that the European Union (EU) make all possible decisions to end this hostile policy.

The EU must truly defend European companies and banks from US extraterritorial sanctions, they stressed.

The document is supported by CubaCoop, which hosted the event on the second day of the Fête de l’Humanité; the Italian Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba, represented by its president, Michele Curto; and European Lawmaker Manu Pineda.

The declaration was also supported by French Communist Parliamentary Leader Andre Chassaigne; the first vice president of the Party of the European Left, Maite Mola; the president of the Communist Party of Spain, Jose Luis Centella; and the Sodepaz organization, in the voice of Francisco Calderon.

The signatories also agreed to promote foreign investment in Cuba and stimulate trade relations with the blockaded island through common projects.

In the forum moderated by the vice president of Prensa Latina for Information, Luisa Maria Gonzalez, a first action directed at the EU was announced, consisting of a request to end the refusal of banks to carry out transactions with Cuba for fear of US sanctions.

The demand implies that the Union designate banks in charge of these operations and undertake to defend them.

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