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UN-CUBA: If Blockade, There Will be Condemnation
The UN General Assembly begins Thursday a new countdown for a year towards its 19th statement against the US blockade on Cuba, unless Washington implements radical changes, unpredictable so far.
The countdown started Wednesday, when the top entity registered the highest vote in 18th consecutive years of resolutions at the UN.
With 187 votes in favor, three against (the United States, Israel and Palau) and two abstentions (Marshall Islands and Micronesia), Cuba reached Wednesday another unquestionable political and diplomatic victory, for the first time with US President Barack Obama at the White House.
"The blockade remains intact and is a massive, blatant and systematic violation of human rights, an absurd policy that has caused shortages and sufferings, and is ethically unacceptable," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez stated at the UN.
Addressing Obama directly, the minister rejected the US national interest pretext used by the president to maintain the siege on Cuba.
"No responsible person could say that Cuba is a threat to national security of the only superpower. All our force is that of right, truth and reason," Rodriguez stressed.
The overwhelming majority against the US siege on the Caribbean island was based on a resolution entitled "Necessity to Put an End to the Economic, Financial and Trade Blockade Imposed by the United States of America on Cuba."
About that text presented at the General Assembly, the minister pointed out that supporting it is an act against that aggression and the use of force, for peace, right and hope, an act of justice towards the heroic people of Cuba.
The document called all States to abstain from promulgating and applying laws and measures as the blockade, complying with the UN Charter and the International Law, which reaffirm freedom of trade and navigation.
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