Brussels, Jul 18 (Agencias) European, Latin American and US legal, social, union and political organizations launched a call at the Brussels-2023 Peoples’ Summit for an International Tribunal against the Blockade of Cuba.
In the forum of social movements and progressive European, Latin American and Caribbean forces, the leader of the Party of the European Left (PIE) MaiteMola read accompanied by some twenty representatives of associations the summons to the Tribunal scheduled for November 16 and 17 in this capital.
According to the appeal, the Court intends to denounce the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island for more than six decades, a policy that it describes as illegal and inhumane.
Likewise, it seeks to strengthen the movement against this siege in Europe, the United States, and in the rest of the world.
«We are sure that this action will serve to add voices to the defense of the democratic rights, sovereignty and freedom of the peoples», underlines the text, signed by the International Association of Democratic Jurists, the Group of the Left in Parliament European Union, the PIE and the National Lawyers Guild of the United States.
Likewise, the Forum of Lawyers of the Left-Democratic Lawyers Network of Spain, the National Conference of Lawyers of the United States, the Movement of Solidarity with Cuba in Europe, union organizations and associations of Cubans residing in the old continent signed the initiative. .
The signatories denounced the extraterritorial nature of the blockade against Cuba and the inclusion of the largest of the Antilles in Washington’s unilateral list of countries sponsoring terrorism, which reinforce the violation of International Law of the US policy towards the island.
In statements to Prensa Latina, MEP Manu Pineda announced that the headquarters of the International Tribunal against the Blockade of Cuba will be the European Parliament.
We claim that scenario, that institution, which cannot be at the service of reaction, let us remember that the European Union formally rejects the blockade and all its member countries vote in the UN General Assembly every year to end it, he stressed.
Pineda considered it necessary to give a legal treatment «to what is obviously a crime, and a crime has to be tried and sentenced.»
On behalf of the island, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Fernando González, thanked the solidarity and the decision to organize the Tribunal.
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