Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Monday that Cuba's absence in the Organization of American States (OAS) is an "anomaly" which must be corrected.
The minister's statement was made during a visit to Rio, where he commented on the absence of Cuban representatives in the fifth Summit of the Americas, which will take place from April 17 to 19 in Trinidad and Tobago.
Cuba, which was expelled from the OAS in 1962, will be the only country in the continent without any representatives at the summit.
Amorim said all the countries in the American continent, except El Salvador and the United States, maintain both commercial and diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Several leaders of Latin American and Caribbean countries have stated that they will use the Summit to press U.S. President Barack Obama to end the U.S. embargo to Cuba, which already lasts 47 years.
