MaximsNewsNetwork: US-CUBA TRADE EMBARGO: UNITED NATIONS

MaximsNewsNetwork: 28 October 2009 - UNTV - The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for the 18th year in a row to end to the 47-year-old United States imposed trade embargo on Cuba. US ambassador Susan Rice defends the embargo and says that "cold war rhetoric" must be left behind.

The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for the 18th year in a row today to end to the 47-year-old United States imposed trade embargo on Cuba.
187 member countries of the General Assembly's 192 members voted in favour of the draft resolution. The United States, Israel and Palau voted against it while Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained.
Egyptian Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz speaking on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement expressed concern over the continuation of this long-standing unilateral policy, noting that seventy percent of Cubans were born under the embargo.

Cubas Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, lamented that since the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States there have been no changes in the implementation of the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba which he said remains intact and continues to cause suffering and need.
He added that the embargo constitutes a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of human rights.
American Ambassador Susan Rice exclaimed here we go again and said that the hostile language heard from the Cuban Foreign Minister seems straight out of the cold war era and its not conducive to constructive progress.
She went on to detail steps taken by the Obama administration to ease restrictions affecting the Cuban people.
The US President has said the embargo will be maintained until Cuba frees political prisoners and improves its human rights record.

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[MGCubanHistory]

first democracy freedom of speech

[Picaro1]

Is about time that 50 years is enough, but it most be working or else they would have complaining. The problem is that in the 60 thru the 90s Cuba laugh at the Embargo

[The88Nomad]

2:12 Hey Israel! WTF has Cuba done to you???

On June 8, 1967 the evil Zionist Israeli Air force bombed the USS liberty Naval Ship which killed 34 American sailors and injured 172 others....The US should've put an embargo on Israel.

[capecodful]

@albtho Lifting the Embargo is only going to benefit the 50+ year Dynasty. A powerful family like a land owner and slave master who controls the entire economy and claims ownership to everything including its people. The world awaits political change in Cuba and the Cuban people will be free again.

[antekification]

US is such a ugly state.

[albtho]

@capecodful Good point! But what is special about this resoultion is how unanimous it is. Few resolutions show that level of agreement in the international community, including those directed to Cuba. The language in the resolutions also tends to be rather indirect and open to interpretation. For example Uruguay's proposal on fundamental rights in Cuba, 2002, approved by 23, with 21 votes against. There were 2 against this one, and the recommendation could not be clearer: Lift the embargo

[capecodful]

If you support these U.N. resolutions than u must support that all political prisorers in Cuba must be released at once. Addditionally, free democratic elections must be allowed in Cuba. That means that the Castro-Dinasty cannot continue to intimidate nor put people in jails for organizing an oposing party. The persecution and extermination of Cuban citizens/disidents since 1959 is no secret and started by killing members of the same revolutionary army which rejected Fidel's brand of socialism.