United Nations: The General Assembly of the United Nations Organization (UN) has expressed its rejection of the US blockade against Cuba for 27 consecutive years, and calls for the urgent need to put an end to that mechanism that appears as the main obstacle to development from the Caribbean island, Prensa Latina publishes.

Since the first vote taken in 1992, the member states of the multilateral agency, with the exception of two or three, as the years have passed - express through a resolution their opposition to the US siege.

In this year's high-level debate in the Assembly, more than 40 countries explicitly expressed their condemnation of the US blockade and expressed solidarity with Cuba by intervening in the great appointment, which was held from September 24 to 30.

According to figures from Cuba's mission to the United Nations, 43 states from different continents called for the lifting of the blockade imposed almost six decades ago by Washington, which caused damages of $ 922.66 billion in that period.

For his part, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez recalled in his speech in the general debate that in recent months, the United States began the application of non-conventional criminal measures to prevent the supply of fuel to the Caribbean nation from different markets.

In this last year, he explained, the US government increased its hostility and blockade actions: it imposed additional obstacles to foreign trade and increased "the persecution of our banking-financial relations with the rest of the world."

It has extremely limited travel and any interaction between the two peoples. It hinders the ties and contacts with their homeland of Cubans living in the United States, the head of Cuban diplomacy said.

The illegal Helms-Burton Act of 1996, whose Title III Washington decided to activate this year, guides that aggressive behavior, he stressed.

Almost six decades of the US blockade have caused quantifiable damages for more than 922 thousand 630 million dollars, but the human damages produced by this genocidal policy are incalculable, said the chancellor recently through his official Twitter account.

"The suffering caused to Cuban families cannot be accounted for," he said.

HELMS-BURTON LAW, MORE HOSTILITY OF THE UNITED STATES TO CUBA

Since its entry into force in 1996, the Helms-Burton Act seeks to universalize the blockade through brutal and illegal pressures against third countries, their governments and companies. This was explained by the permanent alternate representative of Cuba to the UN, Ana Silvia Rodríguez.

With that law, the US government seeks to suffocate the island and promote the lack of the population with the purpose of imposing a government that meets their interests, she said.

According to the ambassador, Helms-Burton and the activation of its titles III and IV is the fundamental political and legal instrument of the current American aggressiveness.

She also highlighted its strong extraterritorial extent, by submitting citizens and institutions of third countries to the jurisdiction of the United States Courts for legitimate actions that occurred outside their territory.

Cuba's mission to the UN regularly publishes statements with details of the increased extraterritorial nature of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the Caribbean island.

There are many examples of the extraterritorial application of the blockade, exacerbated by the decision of the Washington Government that allows - under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act - the possibility of taking legal action in US courts against entities that work with nationalized properties in the 1960s, they stood out.

This provision, they said, attacks freedom of trade and reinforces the extraterritorial nature of sanctions against Cuba, in addition to damaging the economic and commercial relations of the Island with the international community.

'The Helms-Burton Act, in violation of principles of International Law such as the free determination of peoples, freedom of trade, sovereign equality and non-interference in the internal affairs of States, is totally inapplicable in Cuba.'

In that sense, the mission recalled Law 80 on the Reaffirmation of Cuban Dignity and Sovereignty, approved by the National Assembly of Popular Power in December 1996, which declares the aforementioned US regulations illegal and without any value or legal effect on the Island .

Also the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the adverse impact of unilateral coercive measures, Idriss Jazairy, referred to how the activation of titles III and IV of the Helms-Burton Act undermines Cuba's economic prospects and It causes a serious impact on the island town.

As she told Prensa Latina through an interview via email, Title III opens the possibility of litigation from US territory against companies that do business in Cuba, and this further affects the overall development of the island and impacts negatively on its population

Title IV is intended to intensify all impediments to the entry into the United States of those executives of companies, and their families, who legally invest in Cuba, in properties that were nationalized in accordance with International Law.

To date, the US blockade against Cuba appears as the most unjust, severe and prolonged unilateral sanctions system applied against any country.

Although since 1992 the UN General Assembly has approved a resolution every year calling for the end of that siege, Washington continues to ignore the international community, and maintains and intensifies its hostile policy. (BSH)

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