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Organizations and political personalities in Europe agreed this Saturday at the Humanité party, to activate a platform that promotes joint actions of solidarity and collaboration with Cuba in the face of the US blockade.

Representatives from Spain, France and Italy, and at a European level, supported the final declaration of the forum convened by the Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop) association, a text that calls for raising the support of the island to a higher stage, in the form of a strategic alliance against to the economic, commercial and financial blockade.

Regarding the siege with which Washington has tried to suffocate the Caribbean nation for more than 60 years, the participants demanded that the European Union (EU) take all possible decisions to end this hostile policy.

The EU must truly defend European companies and banks from US extraterritorial sanctions, they stressed.

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The document had the support of CubaCoop, which hosted the event on the second day of the Humanité festival;

of the Italian Agency for Cultural and Economic Exchange with Cuba, represented by its president Michele Curto, and Manu Pineda MEP.

He was also supported by the French communist parliamentary leader André Chassaigne, the first vice president of the Party of the European Left, Maite Mola, the president of the Communist Party of Spain, José Luis Centella, and the Sodepaz organization, in the voice of Francisco Calderón.

The signatories also agreed to promote foreign investment in Cuba and stimulate trade relations with the blockaded island through common projects.

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In the forum moderated by the vice president of Prensa Latina for Information, Luisa María González, a first action directed at the EU was announced, consisting of a request to end the refusal of banks to carry out transactions with the Caribbean country. for fear of US sanctions.

The demand implies that the Union designate banks in charge of these operations and undertake to defend them.

The president of CubaCoop, Víctor Fernández, considered the text a starting point to escalate efforts in Europe against the blockade.

On behalf of the island, deputy Yoerky Sánchez, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and of the Council of State, thanked the participants for their support of the largest of the Antilles.

Likewise, he reiterated the will of the Cuban people to resist aggression and defend its sovereignty.

Cuba is not alone, and it will win, a victory that will also be yours, he declared, followed by shouts "Cuba yes, blockade no."

(With information from PL)