And to this day it is the victim of an illegal economic embargo," Lula said in a speech opening the G77 Summit of developing nations in the capital, Havana.
The comments were made just hours before Lula left for New York, where he will attend the United Nations General Assembly and have bilateral talks with Biden.
Earlier, Cuba expressed concerns over the label and Washington’s decades-old Cold War-era economic embargo against the island governed by the Communist Party of Cuba.
Cuba and critics of the economic sanctions say the embargo prevents and hampers access to food, medicine and other critical development supplies.
In 2019, during the first year of right-wing Jair Bolsonaro's administration, Brazil voted against the motion along with the United States and Israel.
Persons:
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Donald Trump, Biden, Lula, Lisandra Paraguassu, Steven Grattan, Aurora Ellis
Organizations:
Reuters, Former U.S, Trump, United Nations General Assembly, Communist Party of Cuba, European Union, U.S . State Department, United Nations
Locations:
BRASILIA, Cuba, United States, Havana, Brazil, New York, Israel, Paris