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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arresa has said Washington's sanctions against former Cuban President Raul Castro have no meaning at all because Castro himself does not intend to go to the United States.
Arisa told Sputnik that the sanctions against Castro are completely meaningless because he does not intend to go to the United States, and this applies to his family.
The administration of US President Donald Trump on Thursday imposed diplomatic sanctions on Castro, alleging serious human rights violations, as the United States sought to increase pressure on Havana to support Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The foreign ministers of the Bolivarian alliance of the peoples of the American continent "Alba" expressed in an official statement on Monday expressed their rejection of US aggressive policies against Venezuela and Cuba, including the new unilateral coercive measures against Havana.