Russia slammed President Trump’s plan to reverse US policies on Cuba as a return to Cold War-era “rhetoric.”
“The new line towards Cuba announced by US President Donald Trump takes us back to already half-forgotten rhetoric in the style of the Cold War,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
The ministry said Trump’s actions show that “anti-Cuban discourse is still widely in demand. This cannot but cause regret.”
During an appearance in Miami on Friday, Trump announced that he was unraveling many of the policies put in place by former President Obama to open relations between the US and Cuba, dismissing it as a “one-sided deal.”
The foreign ministry, which also reaffirmed its “solidarity” with the Caribbean nation, said Obama’s easing of sanctions was a “well-thought-out political decision in which there were no losers except marginal Castro opponents.”
With Post wires
