In a statement, the organization indicated that it hopes that this and other measures announced by US President Joe Biden constitute decisive steps towards the total elimination of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the island for more than six decades and not a provocation of internal politics.

Every year the world, with an almost total majority of votes in the United Nations Organization, demands the cessation of a scheme of oppression that violates international law and causes enormous suffering to generations of Cubans, the text states.

In addition, it calls on the Argentine government to “correct its decision not to provide fuel to Cubana de Aviación in order to respect local legislation that prohibits the application of extraterritorial sanctions by third nations.”

For its part, the American Association of Jurists (AAJ) agreed on the need to end the siege that Washington maintains against the Caribbean country.

The limited decision to remove Cuba from the list can be revoked by a next administration. The economic war remains and is the fundamental obstacle to the development and recovery of the Cuban economy and its population, the AAJ warned.

The blockade prevents Cuba from importing fuel, making international medical cooperation agreements, carrying out financial transactions, even anticipating reprisals such as the freezing of assets and inclusion on blacklists. In addition, the United States continues to occupy the territory of the Guantanamo naval base. We demand its definitive closure and return, it added.

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