Cuba on Thursday laid out at the UN Security Council (UNSC) the negative impact of the US blockade on the country´s food security amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Danilo Sanchez, Cuban ambassador to Bolivia, and Javier Freire, executive manager of the Bolivian Food Company, held a meeting in which both parties advocated expanding cooperation in the agri-food industry for the benefit of both peoples.
The imposition of new sanctions by the United States against Cuba in just over a year caused multimillion-dollar losses, Havana's permanent mission to the UN denounced on Wednesday.
A group of 44,010 volunteers participates as of Thursday in the third and final clinical trial of the Cuban vaccine candidate against Covid-19 Soberana 02.