Havana, October 13 (RHC)-- U.S. activist Cheryl Labash said Friday in Boston that if U.S. President Joseph Biden listened to his people, he would lift the blockade on Cuba today and remove the island from the list of alleged sponsors of terrorism.

"This is what is demanded by more than a hundred resolutions approved in the United States that represent some 55 million people," LaBash said in statements to Prensa Latina in the capital of the state of Massachusetts, where the annual meeting of the National Network of Solidarity with Cuba (NNOC) will be held from this Friday until Sunday.

The co-president of the NNOC stressed that, in general, the world is denouncing this merciless unilateral siege.

She also commented that the conference will take place just at that critical moment in which support for Cuba is increasing in the G77 and China up to the UN General Assembly, and respect for the Caribbean nation is growing, "an example is the overwhelming vote in favor of its membership in the Human Rights Council".

LaBash recalled that "next month will be the 31st consecutive vote in which the United States will be asked to end the blockade and stop the lie of calling Cuba a country sponsoring terrorism, which intensifies the intentional pain inflicted on its people".

He added that a strategy is being developed this weekend "to strengthen the movement within the Belly of the Beast to make our demand to remove Cuba from the list of countries that Washington says sponsor terrorism irresistible," he said.

Representatives of some 57 NNOC member organizations arrived in Boston for the conference "and we have another 10 new groups that are applying to join," concluded LaBash.

The meeting, hosted by the University of Massachusetts, will have a Pan-African Forum, organized by the Department of African Studies, which will focus on Cuba, Haiti and the Caribbean.     (Source: Prensa Latina)