Havana. Revolution square. The building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of CubaSIMFEROPOL, Feb. 3 The Crimean regional branch of the Russian Society for Friendship with Cuba demanded that the United States lift sanctions and blockade from the island state. «The blockade of the island has been going on for more than six decades and is a barbaric way to punish people who want to live by their own laws in their country.We demand that the United States immediately lift sanctions and other restrictions on the Republic of Cuba, start full-scale negotiations between the governments of Cuba and the United States.We demand that the United Nations compel the United States of America to urgently lift the blockade on Cuba and creation of an international platform for discussing this issue,» the statement reads, the text of which is at the disposal of RIA Novosti. in the military-technical sphereAs a venue for the meeting, the public activists proposed the Crimea. «We consider it possible to hold meetings on this topic on the Crimean peninsula, which in 1945 was the cradle of the creation of the UN,» the statement says. The US economic blockade of Cuba has been ongoing since 1962. In 2019, 187 UN member states supported the Cuban resolution on the need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade. Despite this, the US continued blockade of Cuba.
