Amsterdam, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) Dutch physicians and from other European countries demanded on Tuesday that United States President Joe Biden remove Cuba from the unilateral States Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.

In a letter to the US president, the Cuba-Europe Educational and Scientific Exchange (CEESE) organization warned about the impact of this type of measures, conceived by the White House to increase financial pressure on sovereign nations.

More than governments, these actions severely harm the people, especially children, according to a research conducted along with colleagues from Italy and the United Kingdom, says the letter, signed by Dutch Doctor and Professor Paul Jonas, who shared it with Prensa Latina.

The specialists published a study entitled “Economic Sanctions on Countries are Indiscriminate Weapons and Should Be Banned” in the British Medical Journal in 2021.

The primary care expert from Leiden University Medical Center and CEESE secretary urged President Biden on behalf of his colleagues to pay attention to the study.

“We hope that you will take note of the results of our research, because you always claim to support and protect the Cuban people,” he stressed.

Cuba was included again on the unilateral SSOT list in January 2021, just a few days before the end of President Donald Trump’s term, as part of his policy to tighten the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba for over six decades, a crusade that Biden has maintained.

The letter warns that with Cuba’s presence on that list, the US Government harms its own people by hindering scientific cooperation between institutions from both countries.

Jonas recalled that during the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba developed vaccines that could be tested and administered in the US, where the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus killed more than one million people.

The medical professionals from the CEESE noted that Washington’s hostility affects medical and scientific exchange between European institutions and Cuba, in an example of the extraterritorial scope of the blockade.

“When I am asked why Cuba is on the SSOT list, I do not have an answer, because the inclusion is not based on any evidence,” the signatory of the letter said.

The text supports decisions that reject the blockade and call for its lifting, among them those issued by the United Nations General Assembly in annual resolutions dating back to 1992.

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Madrid, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) The 17th Cuba Solidarity Meeting will take place from October 4 to 6 in Torremolinos, Malaga, the Preparatory Commission of the event announced.

The State Cuba Solidarity Movement (MESC) expressed certainty that the event will have an important participation of representatives of different organizations in Spain, in the perspective of becoming a new milestone in the reinforcement of support for the Caribbean island.

In its call, the MESC pointed out that the material living conditions of the Cuban people are in a very difficult situation as a result of the United States blockade that has been tightened in recent times.

It recalled that during the Donald Trump administration, 240 new economic measures were approved in 2019 to tighten the blockade, adding Cuba’s inclusion on the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.

In that regard, it meant that the action taken in January 2020, a few days before the end of his (Trump’s) presidency, implied that banking agencies and all international financial institutions would stop giving credits to Cuba and the situation of lack of foreign currency would worsen.

The MESC stressed that during the Joe Biden administration, “despite his electoral campaign promises to reverse Trump’s measures against Cuba, the blockade conditions for Cuba were maintained, since he did not dare remove them them due to pressure from the anti-Cuba mafia.”

After making a broad review of Cuba’s confrontation with Covid-19 and the ingenuity of its scientists to create the island’s own vaccines, the MESC noted that in 2023, the International Tribunal against the Blockade was held successfully at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels, with the participation of world-renowned jurists and the active participation of the MESC.

The previous Cuba Solidarity Meeting was held in 2022 in Puerto de Sagunto, Valencia.

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Buenos Aires, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) on Tuesday demanded Cuba’s exclusion from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list and an end to the blockade that the United States has imposed on the Caribbean island.

The AAJ issued a statement urging the US Government to lift the blockade and all sanctions, which violate international standards and human rights.

The association also expressed the urgent and immediate need to remove Cuba from the SSOT list, which it considered contrary to the fundamental principles and peremptory norms of law.

“The AAJ denounces this hostile action and demands the total and immediate removal of the designation of Cuba as a country that promotes terrorism. Once again, this unilateral action violates the United Nations Charter, whose precepts include respect for the principle of equality and the self-determination of peoples,” the declaration states.

“It also fails to comply with the resolutions of the UN General Assembly that, with the approval of overwhelming majorities, call for an end to the blockade. The list is contrary to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” the association added.

The AAJ considered that “this arbitrary decision aims to maintain in force and intensify the implementation of the unjust and inhuman blockade, as well as the coercive measures, to deprive the Cuban people of their right to self-determination, and their political, civil, economic, social, cultural, and development rights.”

“The blockade and other actions cause serious damage to Cuba’s economy in all its aspects, including infrastructure, industry, energy sources, finances and agriculture. It has dire consequences for the population who suffers in terms of health care, food and other basic needs,” the AAJ pointed out.

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Port of Spain, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) Guards at the United States Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago impeded Ozzi Warwick, general secretary of the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM), to deliver a letter of support for Cuba facing Washington’s hostility, local press reported on Friday.

Trinidad and Tobago Guardian informed that Warwick tried unsuccessfully to leave the letter at the security post but intended to send it to the diplomatic headquarters.

The trade union leader said the JTUM and eight other organizations signed the letter. It called for US President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from Washington’s State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.

The signers demand to revert all hostile policies adopted during the administration of former President Donald Trump and restore the policies of the administration of former President Barack Obama.

On Thursday of last week, Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister Amery Browne also spoke out for supporting Cuba and called for its removal from that list.

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Madrid, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) Acts of solidarity and denunciation of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba will be part of a campaign in favor of the women of the Caribbean island, it was known.

The text sent to Prensa Latina by the coordinator of Cubainformación, José Manzaneda, emphasizes the importance of this action, in difficult times for Cuba, due to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade of the United States.

The Democratic Women’s Movement (MDM), in collaboration with the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), stressed that the idea is to cooperate in different ways to obtain material donations to support Cuban women.

Cristina Simó, MDM president, pointed out that CCOO has made 82 union headquarters available to collect hygienic elements such as sanitary napkins, menstrual cups, panties, and male and female condoms.

The initiative is also promoted from Havana by the Federation of Cuban Women (FCW), which, like the MDM, is part of the Women’s International Democratic Federation.

“Cuban women dedicate around 35,20 hours a week to domestic work and caring for their families, and are the heads of 46% of the country’s households. The shortage caused by this policy (of the blockade), amplifies their traditional roles,” the MDM head commented.

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Hague, Netherlands, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) Dutch people from different sectors of society condemned on Saturday the U.S. blockade against Cuba and the nation’s inclusion in Washington’s unilateral States Sponsoring Terrorism (SST) list.

On behalf of organizations or as individuals, some thirty delegates attended the 2nd Annual Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba in the Netherlands, an event held on the weekend at the Cuban Embassy, where participants denounced the U.S. hostility toward Cuba.

The economic, commercial and financial U.S. blockade has been imposed for over six decades; thus, it was described as genocidal due to its devastating impact on such sensitive areas, as health and children.

Attendees repudiated the tightening of the blockade lately, particularly its extraterritorial scope and the inclusion in the States Sponsoring Terrorism list without any international support, a policy that seeks to smother Cuba in the financial area.

Cuban Ambassador Anet Pino explained to the supportive Dutch people issues of Cuba’s reality, its socio-economic situation and the challenges derived from the U.S. blockade.

The diplomat further thanked the Netherlands for its support to Cuba and its Revolution.

The meeting reviewed the activities of the last year of accompaniment to the nation, set new actions and agreed on a final statement.