Cuba’s request to Washington to reduce sanctions

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim news agency, the Cuban government, on the eve of holding high-level immigration talks with the US authorities, asked Washington to lift the sanctions against this country. reduce and pay special attention to the issue of illegal entry of Cubans to the American soil.

According to this report, the biennial meeting between the two countries, which was suspended since Trump’s presidency, will be held again from 2022, amid a record The history of the illegal entry of about half a million Cubans into the United States has begun since 2021.

Sit This biennial is going to be held today in Washington.

This meeting is being held while Cuba is caught in a deep economic crisis caused by the lack of basic goods in the country, rising inflation and sanctions. The purpose of the upcoming negotiations with the American authorities is to improve safe, legal and orderly immigration between the two countries.

Deputy of American affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, pointing out that these goals have not been achieved, said that conducting these negotiations is still one of the cases of contact and dialogue with the government. It’s Joe Biden. Sanctions also have a lot of weight and pressure on bilateral immigration conditions.

based This report, the communist government of Cuba has been claiming for many years that the crippling US embargoes have caused severe suffocation in this country and the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, which also provides special rights for Cubans who enter the country and as soon as Entry supports them, has encouraged young people to migrate.

But the Americans, as the main destination of Cuban immigrants, in response to the claims of the Cuban authorities, state that the lack of civil liberties and human rights in Cuba with the dominated economic situation causes The citizens of this country have been forced to migrate.

Meanwhile, the US government has increased the legal paths for Cuban immigration with the aim of combating illegal immigration, including through access to US visas in Havana, the reunification of separated family members and the program human rights.

But the vice president of American affairs in the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that as long as the sanctions remain in place, these laws have no effect on solving the problem.

Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, the name of Cuba included in the list of countries supporting terrorism, and the current president, Joe Biden, although he canceled many of the laws of the Trump era, has not taken any steps to remove Cuba’s name from this list.

Previously, Cuba expressed its concern He had announced the inclusion of his country in the blacklist of countries that support terrorism and the sanctions imposed on this country by the United States. 27 member countries of the European Union have repeatedly condemned Cuba and the critics of the sanctions Economists believe that these sanctions prevent Havana from accessing food, medicine and other important development resources.

The Biden government had previously announced that according to American law There are exemptions and permits for the export of food, medicine and other humanitarian items to Cuba.

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