CUBA’S National Assembly has rejected US President Donald Trump’s executive order designating Cuba as “an unusual and extraordinary” threat.

The order, signed by Mr Trump last week, authorises his administration to impose tariffs on goods imported from any country that “directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba.”

The National Assembly insisted on Monday that Cuba was “a country of peace,” and had “never supported terrorist actions, which it denounces and condemns firmly.”

In a statement, it also denounced the United States for escalating its “economic war” aimed at suffocating the Cuban people.

The assembly said that the US aim to impose sanctions on countries supplying oil to Cuba was a clear “violation of international law and the sovereignty of states.”

The actions of the US are a threat to regional stability and demonstrate a “disrespect for the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace,” signed by the 33 leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Cuban legislators said.

Finally, the text calls on parliamentarians all over the world to denounce “the vile, unethical policy by which the US government seeks to trample on the sovereignty of Cuba and the peoples of our America.”