By IRNA,
Berlin : The European Union is expected to lift the sanctions against Cuba next week in defiance of the US, the business daily Handelsblatt said in a report to be released Friday.
The decision is to be made during a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, the paper cited EU diplomats as saying.
The removal of sanctions will open the way for a comprehensive cooperation between the EU and Cuba.
The sanctions which did not include economic restrictions, were imposed in 2003 in protest to the arrest of Cuban opposition figures.
The EU had initially limited high-level official contacts with the Caribbean island but postponed the political sanctions following the release of Cuban dissidents.
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