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一 | Havana, Oct 20 (UNI) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called on the US government to lift its decades-long trade embargo, or blockade, against the country.

"The US blockade has caused Cuba losses valued at 3.806 billion US dollars between August 2021 and February 2022," Rodriguez told a press conference in the country's capital Havana on Wednesday.

The call comes ahead of the Cuban government's annual submission to the UN General Assembly of a draft resolution calling for an end to the embargo. The General Assembly is scheduled to discuss and vote on the draft resolution in early November.

US trade sanctions, Rodriguez said, severely limit Cuba's access to food, medicine, technology and inputs on the international market.

"The world would be a better place without the US blockade against Cuba," he added.

First imposed in 1962, the embargo was broadened by former US President Donald Trump, who put in place 243 more sanctions, including banning all flights from the United States to Cuban destinations except for Havana, and capping remittances Cuban Americans can send to their families back home.

The current US administration allowed airlines to resume flights to other Cuban cities and lifted the cap on remittances, but the web of sanctions against Cuba remains largely in place.

For 29 times in a row, the UN General Assembly has voted in favor of the resolution urging the United States to end its embargo against Cuba.

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广州日报讯 (全媒体记者黄维) 目前，由中国篮协主导的中国篮球名人堂系列工作正在逐步推进。昨日，中国篮协主席姚明谈到了篮球名人堂的意义。“我觉得任何一个事业，都需要知道自己从哪里来，自己是谁，然后要去哪里。”姚明说：“我们做的这件事(建立篮球名人堂)就是要去解决第一个问题——我们从哪来，篮球名人堂就是围绕这个核心来做。”姚明谈到，所谓“名人堂”，对很多专业体育领域的人来说并不陌生，特别是在国外，“但这对于中国体育来说还是一件新鲜事，这个平台能够让大家了解中国篮球历史上发生过的事情、曾经给我们打下基础的篮球前辈，这是一个非常系统的工程。