Geneva_ Cuba's First Deputy Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina on Wednesday accused the United States of committing a flagrant violation of human rights with its persistent economic, financial and commercial siege on the island, Prensa Latina publishes.

During his speech at the High Level Segment of the 40th ordinary session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) at UN, Medina defined the U.S. blockade as the main obstacle to the economic and social development of his country.

'The United States has intensified the policy of hostility it has applied against Cuba for more than 50 years,' the diplomat said in front of nearly 100 senior officials and representatives of international organizations gathered at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva.

The old, but sustained practices in Washington, are reinforced by imposing new sanctions and measures against the Cuban people, despite the majority rejection expressed by the international community countless times, he said.

'Sectors with an extremist projection managed to impose on U.S. foreign policy a singular aggressiveness and, in case of Cuba, seek to establish insurmountable obstacles for any future effort to progress in bilateral relations,' he stated.

Medina mentioned the increase in programs organized and financed from the United States for political subversion and the change of the constitutional order legitimately established in Cuba.

This is a new escalation in the efforts of U.S. imperialism to dominate and protect the destiny of our nation, the diplomat said.

He assured that Cuba will continue to defend and cooperate with human rights mechanisms that are applied on universal, objective and non-discriminatory basis.

He alluded to the process of popular consultation of the new Constitution and valued the results of the referendum, held on Sunday, February 24, as a convincing demonstration of Cuban democracy and the people's overwhelming support to the government, the political system and its Revolution.

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