PHOTOS: the Hungarian foreign minister is in Cuba and is against US blocade

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Blocades and sanctions are “futile in terms of meeting their own goals”, while they will “cause difficulties to people who have nothing to do with the causes”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Havana, adding that the peoples of Europe and Cuba were now facing such difficulties.

Coping with difficulties arising from the war in Ukraine, high inflation, erratic food supplies and waves of migration requires “restoring international politics to a basis of mutual respect” while “the age of sanctions and blocades should be replaced by an era of dialogue”, he said.

Sanctions and blocades have often proved to be “more painful for those introducing them”, Szijjártó said, adding that Hungary supported lifting the US blocade against Cuba. Hungary, alongside with the other European Union members, votes each year in support of a United Nations decree aimed at removing the blocade, he noted.

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  1. Never misses a chance to take a swipe at the U.S., in the meantime him and mini Putin are destroying Hungary. Fix Hungary, pay teachers and fix the healthcare system. Then take a vacation to one of Putin’s satelite countries.

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