2024-05-06 22:36:30
Cuba decided to suspend flights Cuban Aviation toward Argentinagiven the refusal of the oil company of that country Fiscal Oilfields (YPF) to supply fuel to the airline, in correspondence with the embargo that the United States imposes on the island, reported the Chancellery.
“Cubana de Aviación has been forced to suspend regular flights between Cuba and Argentina,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday night, which considered the position of the company and that of the Argentine authorities to be contradictory. in a government that “proclaims freedom at all costs.”
He explained that YPF informed the Cuban airline in March “of its refusal to continue supplying fuel to its aircraft, in application of the United States blockade against Cuba” and this has not changed.
The oil company “blatantly violates” its national law, which considers foreign laws with “extraterritorial effects” “absolutely inapplicable,” the Foreign Ministry denounced.
Last week, the Cuban firm had reported the cancellation of two flights due to the impossibility of having gasoline that is restricted in the South American country, affecting several passengers who were stranded in Havana.
The Cuban airline “looked for countless alternatives to maintain the operations planned and authorized by the Argentine airline authority” and also tried not to affect passengers by appealing to other airlines, the note added.
Even a Cuban official met in Buenos Aires with senior managers of Argentine civil aviation, without receiving a satisfactory response.
“It is contradictory that freedom is proclaimed at all costs, while the freedom of a company that rigorously complies with the regulatory provisions of Argentina and the Organization of the Organization is limited. International Civil Aviation“added the island’s statement.
The sanctions that Washington applied against Cuba, for more than six decades, include companies anywhere in the world that do business with Havana.
However, it is unusual for gas stations to deny fuel to Cubana flights.
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2024-05-06 22:36:30