This was confirmed here by a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who also reiterated his government’s position regarding the need to end all unilateral coercive measures.
Laos considers that an embargo, with its extraterritorial implications and in particular unilateral coercive measures, not only hinders the socio-economic development of a nation on which the blockade is imposed, but also contravenes the principles of the United Nations Charter.
Likewise, the spokesperson added, they violate international law and the sovereign equality of States, as well as the freedom of international trade and navigation, which cause serious negative consequences to innocent people and hinder the national development of many developing countries.
In this sense, he stressed in brief statements made the day before, “the Lao People’s Democratic Republic joins the global call to lift the economic embargo against Cuba and remove it from the list of “States sponsoring terrorism,” as well as putting an end to all unilateral coercive measures.”
In mid-May, the North American Secretary of State sent to Congress one more of the arbitrary reports that usually qualify countries, without any mandate or international recognition, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a recent statement.
In this case, he explained, the document lists four countries that supposedly “do not fully cooperate with United States counterterrorism efforts in calendar year 2023” and, unlike in recent years, Cuba is not slanderously mentioned.
However, he emphasized, the State Department itself maintains Cuba on an absolutely unilateral and unfounded list that designates States that supposedly “sponsor” terrorism, whose sole purpose is to slander and serve as a pretext to adopt coercive economic measures against such as those They are ruthlessly applied against Cuba.
The demand that the United States government correct this injustice is loud and repeated, from not only the Cuban people and numerous governments, especially from Latin America and the Caribbean, but also from political, social and religious organizations within United States and several politicians from that country, he noted.
The clear and absolute truth is that Cuba does not sponsor terrorism, but has been a victim of it, including State terrorism, as anyone interested in the subject can confirm, the Cuban statement stressed.
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