Geneva, Feb 21 (Prensa Latina) The head of the Cuban Mission before international organizations in Geneva, denounced the United States for violating intellectual property standards in the case of the Cuban brand Havana Club.
In a meeting of the Organ for the Solution of Disputes in the World Trade Organization (WTO), Cuban representative Celia Labora maintained that with the approval of Section 211 of the US law of appropriations, extended the blockade on her country.
She asserted that Washington took away the control over that brand in the United States to the Havana Club Holding which is its legitimate owner.
In that way, insisted Labora, once again the indifference and unexisting will of the US government was evidenced by failing to comply with the WTO recommendations and resolutions which demand the elimination of Section 211 of that bill.
She added that those actions question Washington´s real political will to honour its commitments before the WTO to make the Doha round negotiations go forward, negative attitude that affects the credibility of this institution.
The Cuban official informed that last February 9, a group of 20 Republican and Democrat senators presented a draft bill before the US Senate, which among other things, proposes the elimination of that Section.
The island´s representative before the WTO demanded new actions to require the immediate elimination of the controverted legislation as the only solution to the conflict created around the Havana Club brand.
Source: Latin America Press Agency
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