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Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 June 2026

Debate

Cuba: Humanitarian Situation

Contribution

My Lords, Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has said about the blockade: “Such severe sanctions packages that target entire sectors of an economy and produce broad, indiscriminate, and harsh effects on populations are incompatible with basic principles of international human rights law”. We all know that poverty and hardship have been embedded by political repression in Cuba, but aid is now being provided by Canada and Europe for a humanitarian crisis created mostly by the US. The current blockade is making a long-term difficult situation for the people of Cuba potentially disastrous. What are the UK Government doing to engage with the United States Government to find ways to liberalise Cuba, to the benefit of its people, and not just see it as a resource to be plundered by US corporates?

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