Japan Demands Lifting Of US Blockade On Cuba

The Japan- Cuba Friendship Association has demanded U.S. President Barack Obama to lift the blockade on the Caribbean island and the return of the naval base in Guantanamo, a portion of Cuban territory illegally occupied against the will of the island.

Through a letter sent to the U.S. head of government, the solidarity group also called for a real normalization of relations between those two countries.

The United States should totally lift the economic, commercial and financial blockade unilaterally imposed on Cuba, stressed the group, and requested that the damages caused to the people for that policy for more than 50 years are also compensated.

The group also stated that the space in the naval base in Guantanamo that Washington is illegally occupying, should be returned to Cuba, according to the spirit of the international law.

That association recently sent a solidarity message to the Cuban people in which its members wished successes to the sovereign process for the restoration of ties between Cuba and the United States, and stressed the recognition by the U.S. government of the failure of its hostility and isolation policy towards the island.

The Japanese organization expressed joy for the release and return to Cuba of the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned to harsh sentences in that northern country.

The group also considered a victory Cuba's exclusion from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, supported by the peoples worldwide that respect justice.