By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta

HAVANA (Reuters) -Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday called for the United Nations to stop the United States from starting a war in the region, amid rising tensions due to a military buildup in the Caribbean to counter drug cartels.

“I call on the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council to fulfill their obligations and to exercise their prerogatives under the mandate of the Charter to preserve peace in our region,” Rodriguez told a press conference in Havana to launch its annual campaign for a United Nations resolution condemning the trade embargo.

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The foreign minister said fighting drug trafficking in the name of U.S. national security was a “crude and ridiculous pret

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