The Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop) association demanded Saturday the lifting of the U.S. blockade against Cuba

Paris, October 15 (RHC)-- The Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop) association demanded Saturday the lifting of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade against the archipelago and advocated strengthening European actions to mitigate its impact.

In a motion approved at its general assembly, the organization urged the French government and the European Union (EU) to apply the UN resolutions on the need to put an end to the siege imposed by Washington more than six decades ago and to facilitate collaboration with Cuba, limited by the extraterritorial nature of the blockade.

In the positions presented by its re-elected president, Victor Fernandez, the association ratified its commitment to promote a European effort to condemn the hostile policy of the United States and at the same time to accompany with concrete actions the economic development of the Antillean nation.

In this regard, CubaCoop's first vice-president, Miguel Quintero, recalled the platform activated in September, in the context of the Fiesta de l'Humanité, aimed at taking coordinated action in Europe against the blockade and its extraterritorial effects on companies, banks and citizens of the so-called old continent.

The general assembly was attended by guests such as the Cuban ambassador to France, Otto Vaillant, the French academic Stéphane Witkowski and the Cuban poet Nancy Morejón, who shared her work with those present.

For his part, Witkowski spoke as an expert in international relations on the economic transformations in Cuba in the challenging scenario imposed by the United States with its blockade.

Vaillant expressed his gratitude for the solidarity with the island and affirmed that his government and its people will not give up building a better and peaceful world.

CubaCoop's general assembly approved the road map and strategic axes of the association for the period 2023-2026, a stage in which they will seek internal strengthening, the development of local committees and digitalization, as well as the promotion of economic support from the largest of the Antilles with a projection of work at the European level.

The forum ratified Víctor Fernández as president, while Miguel Quintero assumed the post of first vice-president of the organization founded in 1995.