The bloc requested the immediate exclusion of the Caribbean country from the list, during the 48th Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the G77 held on September 27 in New York, the source said.

The participants recognized at the meeting that the measure of the US Government has reinforced the effects of the blockade, including the difficulties of Cuba to carry out financial and commercial operations, threatening the subsistence and integrity of the Cuban people.

The ministerial declaration “is a valuable expression of solidarity that adds to the more than 900 statements that this year have demanded the immediate rectification of this serious injustice against the Cuban people”, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the island.

The G77 and China is the most diverse multilateral advocacy group, with 134 member states representing two-thirds of the United Nations membership and 80 percent of the world’s population.

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