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Nations renew call for an end to U.S. embargo against Cuba
27.10.2011 10:12 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba for the past half a century should to end, says the General Assembly.
For the 20th consecutive year, the Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the United States to end its economic, commercial and financial embargo against the Caribbean country.
Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parilla said the United States has never hidden the fact that the objective of the embargo, which he said has cost Cuba more than $975 billion, is to overthrow the government.
«According to the U.S. government memorandum of April 6, 1960, the objectives pursued by the blockade have been to cause disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship, to weaken the economic life of Cuba by denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of government,» emphasized Parilla.
For his part, the representative of the United States Ronald Gordad said the following:
«The U. S. Economic relationship with Cuba is a bilateral issue and is not appropriately a concern of this Assembly. The embargo represents just one aspect of U.S. policy towards Cuba whose overarching goal is to encourage a more open environment in Cuba and increased respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, principles to which this Organization is also dedicated.»
This year, 186 of the 193 member states of the United Nations voted in favour of the resolution calling for the end of the embargo.
The United States and Israel voted against it while three members states Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau abstained.
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