[State Department] The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Rwanda, the State of Qatar, the Republic of Togo (as the African Union mediator), and the African Union Commission on the occasion of the fifth Joint Oversight Committee held this week in Washington, DC.

The African Union approved a resolution condemning the blockade against Cuba and its designation as a terrorist country. Artists, politicians, and organizations in the U.S. send an open letter to the White House