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.