Havana, Cuba: The Minister of Foreign Relations, Bruno Rodríguez, reaffirmed today the condemnation of the maintenance of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba, despite the almost unanimous rejection of the international community, Prensa Latina publishes.
In his profile on Twitter, the foreign minister described as unacceptable that the government of that power ignores for 29 years the global call to lift this criminal and genocidal policy.
He also recalled that the claim against this siege has not ceased at the United Nations (UN) since November 24, 1992, when the Island first presented the resolution Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade. of the United States against Cuba.
At the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA76), held last September, this Caribbean nation reaffirmed its will to resist the encirclement and discredit campaigns of the United States.
When intervening in a virtual way in the General Debate of UNGA76, ??President Miguel Díaz-Canel affirmed that Cuba ?does not kneel before anyone? and condemned the use of economic coercion measures against sovereign States.
The Democratic administration of President Joe Biden maintains that policy, intensified with 243 measures adopted by the Donald Trump government, which include the incorporation of Cuba into the unilateral list of countries that supposedly sponsor terrorism.
At that meeting, 184 nations expressed their support for the Cuban resolution, while two voted against (the United States and Israel) and three abstained.