Cuba Denounces US Maneuver to Avoid Condemnation in the United Nations

Cuba denounces maneuver of the United States to avoid condemnation in the United Nations. Photo: Radio Reloj

United Nations_ The Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, assured that the United States Government, in its desire to create greater tensions and increase hostility, is blocking the next vote in the United Nations (UN) against the blockade.

Washington in its attempts to increase hostility against Cuba has had no limits in creating difficulties for the General Assembly, which is an international, universal and democratic body of the United Nations.

In that regard, he explained that the US State Department originally presented a text of eight paragraphs of amendments to the draft resolution "Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba." It hastily divided that document into eight separate amendments that were submitted to the United Nations General Assembly for analysis tomorrow, he added.

All this pursues the obvious purpose of creating a pretext to harden the blockade and try to present the illusion that there is international support for that policy, Rodriguez said. In this way, he added, the US delegation seeks to disturb, consume time, create confusion and hinder the adoption of the resolution calling for the end of the blockade against Cuba.

The amendments presented by the United States have the objective of changing the nature of the resolution that opposes the blockade, with emphasis on the extraterritorial application of the same, he explained.

Instead, he said, the United States wants to turn it into a resolution that contains attacks against Cuba in the field of human rights, which is totally unjustified.

Cuba has presented this draft resolution in the last 26 years and, this time, the United States seeks to obstruct the adoption of the resolution, and thus disguise "the flagrant and systematic mass violation suffered by the Cuban people, which precisely the application of the blockade is", the Minister considered.

The northern delegation forces the UN General Assembly to pronounce on eight documents of amendments, all aggressive against Cuba, all manipulators of the cause of human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals, the foreign minister denounced. As he explained, there are other bodies and other instances of the UN where it would be appropriate to have a conversation on human rights issues.

Unlike previous years, in the morning session on Wednesday there will be a debate in the General Assembly about the resolution presented by Cuba, and the speeches of the groups of countries and member states will be heard.

The vote on the draft resolution calling for the end of the blockade will be made on Thursday, because instead of facilitating a short voting act as in previous years, the US State Department seeks to alter the process and analyze eight different amendments, the chancellor said.

"We are confident that the amendments will be rejected and that the resolution will receive overwhelming majority support, as has happened in the past."