As a country committed to the defense of international law, South Africa will not tire in its efforts to demand an immediate and unconditional lifting of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, Fransman said. For more than half a century this embargo has continued to stifle the economic and social development of Cuba, further exacerbating hardships and sufferings of the people of Cuba, sabotaging the achievement of all the internationally agreed development goals, including Millennium Development Goals, by the Cuban government and its people, said Fransman.

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