00:00Other than that, Russia will continue helping fuel-hungry Cuba with crucial supplies of oil.
00:06Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gives this assurance just two weeks after Moscow sent a tanker with around 700,000 barrels
00:14of crude to the Caribbean island.
00:18Washington stopped oil exports to Cuba from its main ally Venezuela after capturing then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January
00:263,
00:27triggering acute fuel shortages across the communist-ruled island of almost 11 million people.
00:34US President Donald Trump has threatened punishing tariffs on countries sending crude to Cuba as he seeks to put pressure
00:41on the government.
00:42However, the US later allowed the Russian oil delivery to Cuba, this year's first by Moscow, for humanitarian reasons.
00:50Meanwhile, another major supplier, Mexico, halted its shipments.
00:55Lavrov on a visit to China said Russia will provide humanitarian aid to Cuba, its long-standing ally.
01:01Cuba produces less than a third of the oil it requires.
01:05Though it cleared the recent Russian delivery, the Trump administration said it would review further oil shipments to Cuba on
01:11a case-by-case basis.
01:13Cuba is satisfied with yesterday ants Obama's birthday or cloud contaminants to Cuba are the ones that are rewarded for
01:13the urbanMan Stephane.
01:13You
Comments