For the 19th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly will vote on Tuesday on the resolution demanding that the United States to lift its blockade of Cuba, which has caused the island more then $750 billion in losses, reported Prensa Latina.
The demand is item No. 41 on the General Assembly's agenda, under the heading "The Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba."
In October 2009, 187 of 192 UN member countries voted for the end of the hostile US policy with only three nations voting against that resolution (the United States, Israel and Palau), and two abstentions (Marshall Islands and Micronesia).
The annual report on the blockade presented by Cuba in the General Assembly states that the siege remains intact, with its complex web of laws and legal regulations.
This is also the longest and most unyielding blockade applied by the United States in history against any country, despite being in violation of international law and the UN Charter's purposes and principles.
It is also, in essence and objectives, an act of unilateral aggression and permanent threat against the stability of a country, "a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of a people."
Since 1991, the UN General Assembly has condemned the US blockade of Cuba. Last year, even though many delegates expressed a newfound optimism that United States-Cuba relations could improve with the change of Administration in Washington, the United Nations General Assembly once again adopted a stern resolution calling on the United States to end a trade embargo, which had created human suffering and wrecked havoc with the economy of the island nation.
The resolution against the blockade calls upon all States to refrain from promulgating and applying laws and measures such as that promulgated in the 1996 “Helms-Burton Act” which carried extraterritorial effects that impacted the sovereignty of other States.
The blockade is an absurd, illegal and morally unsustainable policy that generates shortages and sufferings for people, restricts and slows the development of the country, and seriously damages Cuba's economy, the document says.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said a month ago at the UN General Assembly that US President Barack Obama has shown himself to be unwilling to rectify even the most irrational and universally rejected aspects from his anti-Cuba policy.
There has not been any change in the policy of blockade and subversion against Cuba in the last two years, even though Obama has sufficient prerogatives to produce real change, the Cuban Foreign minister noted. He has called the blockade an “uncultured act of arrogance” that has hampered the development of Cuba’s economy and was also applied to other countries that wanted to carry out business with the Caribbean nation.
The October 26 vote takes place about a month after the Assembly's annual general debate, where heads of state and government as well as foreign ministers from dozens of countries denounced the US siege against the Caribbean island.
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