The Latin American and Caribbean integration bloc also praised “the elimination by the US government of two other unilateral coercive measures,” announced this Tuesday.

The ALBA-TCP member states welcomed this decision, despite its limited nature, which goes “in the right direction and in line with the sustained and firm claim of Cuba” and of numerous international actors, while favoring the Cuban nation on its sovereign path of development.

The text highlighted that the Cuban Revolution demonstrated its firm commitment to the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, so that including and maintaining Cuba on the aforementioned list always constituted an arbitrary and politically motivated decision by the US government.

At the same time, it used it as “an additional tool to deepen the illegal economic blockade against the island.”

The ALBA-TCP countries celebrated this victorious path and “hope that this will be the first step towards the total lifting of the genocidal and illegal policy of economic war against Cuba, which has caused unjustified suffering and pain to the Cuban people for more than six decades.”

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