• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 09 / 04 / 2011

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By. Ana Julia Suarez Cruz. 11:08Geneva, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) The United States has been once again questioned at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva for its persistent stance against Cuba, during a new session of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB).

Diplomats said that Washington's envoys were not able to give the slightest sign of ethics, by changing at least one phrase of the oft-repeated speech in which they promise to work to amend Section 211 of their Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.

Cuban ambassador to Geneva Rodolfo Reyes denounced that the current DSB mechanism of the WTO has not been able to achieve the fulfillment of its own resolutions.

Reyes stressed that Section 211 is not only currently in force in the United States, violating fundamental principles of the multilateral trade system, but has also been implemented to prevent the renewal of a trade mark used by a Cuban company.

The ambassador referred to the specific case of the Cuban rum Havana Club, whose international marketing is managed by the French company Pernod Ricard, except in US territory, where the brand is used by Bacardi, in a flagrant violation of the WTO.