Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, emphasized that his country is not alone in its demand for an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed more than six decades ago by the United States.
On X, the foreign minister recalled that 33 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution calling for an end to Washington’s hostile policy was first approved.
“Since that date, the U.S. government, disrespecting and ignoring the will of the overwhelming majority of the international community, remains isolated in its capricious desire to maintain the economic strangulation and war against the Cuban people,” said Cuba’s top diplomat.
In his message, Bruno Rodríguez emphasized that the United States has intensified its unilateral coercive measures with a distinctly extraterritorial character.
This year, despite a pressure campaign by the United States government, Cuba received the support of the majority of countries at the UN General Assembly for the thirty-third consecutive time in its struggle to end the blockade.
With 165 countries in favor, 12 abstentions, and seven against, the international community approved the island’s draft resolution, which specifies that between March 2024 and February 2025, the damages caused by the blockade exceeded $7.5 billion.
Following a visit to Cuba to assess the impact of this US policy, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Council, Alena Douhan, asserted that the coercive actions affect all spheres of national life and directly harm its inhabitants, especially the most vulnerable groups.
“Such measures limit the State’s capacity to develop public policies, threaten the rights to food and a dignified life, hinder academic exchanges, affect the supply of energy, drinking water, medicines, and violate the right to life in general,” Douhan told the press.
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[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
