Beirut, Sep 11 (Prensa Latina) The secretary general of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Ministry, Wafic Rahimi, today said that Lebanon has ratified its constant support to Cuba demanding the end of the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of the Caribbean Island.
Rahimi expressed his country's well-known position in a meeting at the Foreign ministry's headquarters with the Cuban ambassador to this Arab country, Rene Ceballo, with whom he reviewed the state of bilateral links,

The Lebanese diplomat, who holds the deputy minister post, litsened to Ceballo's explanations about the current Havana-Washington links, following the formal re-establishment of diplomatic relations.

Ceballo said that after the announcement of the Cuba-U.S. re-establishment of relations on December 17, 2014,

the economic blockade to Cuba has remained pratically intact, and due to that, among other reasons, Cuba will continue demanding the end of the blockade.

The Cuban ambassador said that Havana and Washington have made a positive first step in the process towards the normalization of relations, and quoted as example the regulations issued by the Departments of Treasure and Trade on January 15, 2015.

However, Caballo said those regulations related to US citizens' travels to Cuba, telecommunications, and remittances, are limited and only change some aspects of the implementation of the blockade the White House has kept on his country for over 50 years.

For his part, the deputy Foreign minister said that it would have no justification to continue the economic blockade on Cuba after the re-establishment of diplomatic ties at level of embassies, re-opened in Washington last July, and in August in Havana.