CUBA’S REPORT On

Likewise, he proclaimed that the United States would oppose all demands in favor of the lifting of the blockade at the United Nations Organization and other international forums, in an open challenge to the views expressed by the overwhelming majority of the international community as well as the public opinion of broad sectors of the US society. [...] This Report shows how the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against Cuba is the greatest obstacle to the implementation of the National Economic 1 and Social Development Plan of the country as well as to the development of all the economic potential and the wellbeing of the Cuban people and Cuba‟s economic, commercial and financial relations with the United States and the rest of. [...] In spite of the measures adopted by the administration of President Barack Obama in 2015 and 2016 to modify the implementation of some aspects of the blockade, the laws and regulations that support that policy are still in force and are implemented by US Government agencies, namely the Departments of the Treasury and Commerce, and in particular by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). [...] The blockade prevents the adequate promotion, advertisement and marketing of the Cuban artistic talent; it reduces to a minimum the sale prices of cultural products and services and restricts the enjoyment of Cuban music by the international audience, due to the control exerted by the big transnationals of art and music, most of them from the United States. [...] The observance of copyrights and the payment of royalties to authors are recognized by the legal systems of most of the countries of the world.