United Nations_ The vote today in the UN General Assembly of the draft resolution calling to put an the end of the US blockade against Cuba will once again have a majority support, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez assured.

According to Cubadebate, the minister said that the previous day, 31 delegations intervened in the largest body of the United Nations to express their rejection of this siege and call for the end of a policy that violates the human rights of an entire people.

Although the United States tries to hinder this process and presented eight different amendments to the draft resolution calling for the end of the blockade, this Thursday's session it is expected to hold the vote that has been supported by the international community for 26 years, he explained.

"I am sure that the North American representation will offer a speech in line with its pressures to impose amendments that have no support among the member countries of the UN," the Cuban foreign minister added.

He also said he was convinced that the vote would yield overwhelming support in favor of the resolution presented by Cuba.

I have an optimism based on the history of the 26 previous votes and what was heard in the debate on the previous day, the minister stressed.

In the same way, he projected that there will be a rejection of the North American amendments that have no other purpose than to alter the content of the resolution and obtain a pretext to continue hardening the blockade.

The United States applies the same old policy, obsolete, criminal and genocidal, anchored in the Cold War, but the global consensus against the blockade is totally unanimous, the foreign minister stressed. 

Several organizations such as the Group of 77 plus China, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (Mnoal) and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) took on a clear position in the debate of the General Assembly against the US blockade of Cuba.

The G77 + China regretted that the blockade imposed by the United States for almost six decades is still fully in force and even intensifies. In addition, he referred to the negative effects of the prolonged sanctions, which undermine Cuba's development potential.

For its part, the Mnoal condemned the extraterritorial nature of the blockade and denounced the application of unilateral coercive measures used as tools against the States.

He also rejected proposals for amendments presented by the United States that seeks to divert attention on the essential issue: the blockade against Cuba, said the ambassador of Venezuela to the UN, Samuel Moncada, on behalf of Mnoal.

Celac and Caricom stressed that the blockade is the main obstacle to the development of Cuba, and is a mechanism contrary to the wishes of peace of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples.

At the Wednesday session, Cuba expressed its support to countries such as Belarus, Vietnam, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, South Africa, Namibia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Bolivia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Iran, Zimbabwe, Syria, Nicaragua, Belize, Laos, Angola, El Salvador, Suriname and Tanzania.

During their interventions they rejected the obstacles imposed by the blockade to maintain economic, financial and commercial relations with Cuba, and opposed the amendments proposed by the United States Government.

They also highlighted the solidarity that Cuba provides to the neediest countries and demanded respect for the right of that people to choose their political system.

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