Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned US sanctions on Cuba on Thursday as he visited the island and met with top leaders, including newly re-elected President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Ednews reports citing TASS that Lavrov was on the last leg of a Latin American tour that has taken him to Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The Russian foreign minister met with Díaz-Canel and semi-retired but still influential leader Raul Castro, according to photographs published by the Communist Party newspaper Granma, although no further details were offered on the content of the meetings.
During his visit to the island nation, which for decades was a staunch Moscow ally, Lavrov condemned the American economic sanctions on Cuba and blasted the US for seeking to impose “its will on the world,” according to a dispatch on the state media outlet Cubadebate.