HAVANA, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez warned Wednesday that an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on May 1 expands extraterritorial sanctions against third countries that maintain ties with Cuba.

Rodriguez said on social media that the U.S. government has "explicitly and directly" broadened the application of its extraterritorial economic coercive measures against anyone maintaining relations with Cuba.

Such an order has stripped away the U.S. government's pretense that the embargo is a purely bilateral issue, he said.

The minister added that the United States is attacking the sovereignty of other countries by seeking to control their assets, companies, banks and other institutions.