World Charges again at US Blockade on Cuba

United Nations, Oct 25, (PL).- The United Nations General Assembly will vote on Wednesday for a resolution against the US government blockade on Cuba, after 30 Heads of State and Government condemned that seige before that same authority.

Those speeches of repudiation were given one month ago in the plenary of the 64th period of sessions of the top UN authority, during a whole week devoted to its annual general debate.

The UN General Assembly will examine a resolution called "Need to End the US Economic, Trade and Financial Blockade against Cuba" for the eighth consecutive year.

One month ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the measures, as the US blockade on Cuba that was imposed almost 50 years ago, were obsolete.

He was followed in the list of speakers by US President Barack Obama, who signed in early September the extension for one more year o0f the so called law of Trade with the Enemy, which came into force in 1962 and is only applied against Cuba currently.

Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez criticized the blocakde against the island and championed Latin American integration with no exclusions.

Bolivia's President Evo Morales and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Frias advocated integration of the continent without exceptions, blockades or any restrictive measures.

Similarly, Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo considered that the US blockade is not sustainable any longer.

Other heads of State and Government that condemned the blockade on the island were those from South Africa, Sao Tome and Principe, Dominica, Gambia, Haiti, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau and Zimbabwe.

The Foreign Ministers of countries such as Barbados, Saint Lucia, Chad, Ecuador, Egypt, Namibia, Angola and others also spoke about the issue in a similar tone.

Before all those speeches, UN General Assembly new ordinary session period Chairman Ali Treki told the media embargoes and blockades are unfruitful, undermine the international community's will and only affect populations.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the US blockade is intact and is a unilateral act of agression, to which the world must put en end, since the US government remains turnin a deaf ear to the demands by the international community.

He explained that recent measures announced by the White House constitute a positive step but are extremely limited and insufficient.

Since 1991, the US blockade against Cuba has been increasignly condemned by the UN member countries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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