Cuba

The initiatives to demand the end of the United States blockade against Cuba will continue next Sunday with a new caravan in the US city of Miami, solidarity organizations said on Wednesday.

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday reported the US vote against the resolution presented at the UN for the lifting of the blockade against Cuba showed Washington's destructive, unfair and illegitimate Cuba policy.

Cuba strongly rejected the reasons used by the U.S. representative at the United Nations General Assembly to justify its vote against the resolution demanding the lifting of the blockade that Washington has exerted on the island for six decades.

Address by the minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez to present draft resolution “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” New York, June 23. 2021.

Your Excellency Mr. Chairman;

Your Excellencies Permanent Representatives;

Delegates;

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hailed Cuba's triumph at the U.N., where 184 nations supported its resolution on the need to end the U.S. blockade against the island.

International Community overwhelmingly approves Resolution at UN requesting the end of US blockade on Cuba

The International Community once again overwhelming stood behind Cuba’s plight demanding the lifting of the six-decade-long US blockade on the island.

For the 29th   occasion, the UN General Assembly voted the Resolution Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.

The resolution was adopted by184    votes in favor,  2  against United States, Israel, and  3  abstentions.

Since 1991, the Cuban government has submitted to the United Nations General Assembly the draft resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo of the United States of America against Cuba", which every year receives the support of the international community.

The acknowledged Brazilian writer and liberation theologist Brother Betto, praised today the resistance of the Cuban people to US blockade for more than six decades.

The European Union (EU) warned that the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba hurts its interests and reiterated its rejection of the extraterritoriality of that policy.

The main promoter of the Bridges of Love initiative, Carlos Lazo, denounced Sunday that the caravan carried out in Miami in rejection of the U.S. blockade against Cuba suffered attacks from fascist and intolerant individuals.