“Congratulations and our solidarity hug to the heroic people of Cuba, for their resounding victory with 187 votes in favor at the United Nations. The peoples and countries of the world demand an end to the genocidal blockade, barbarism, and illegal and criminal sanctions. Cuba is better without blockades,” expressed the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, through social networks.
By an overwhelming majority of 187 votes in favor, two against (those of the United States and Israel), and one abstention (that of Ukraine), the resolution that asks the United States to end the blockade was approved for the thirty-first time. The document had two more votes this year than in 2022.
Resolution A/78/L.5, submitted by Cuba, “once again urges the States in which laws and measures of this type exist and continue to be applied, to, in the shortest possible time and in accordance with their regulations legal, take the necessary measures to repeal them or render them void.”
The resolution also calls on the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to continue preparing the annual report on the effects of the embargo, like this year’s (A/78/84), which served as the basis for the deliberation.
The top UN official on the island, Francisco Pichón, recently commented in a forum about the embargo: “We share the view that the blockade, the unilateral external restrictions, the exclusion of Cuba from international financial mechanisms and instruments, are a great obstacle to its sustainable development.”
“Congratulations and our solidarity hug to the heroic people of Cuba, for their resounding victory with 187 votes in favor at the United Nations. The people and countries of the world demand an end to the #GenocidalBlockade, barbarism, and illegal and criminal sanctions. Cuba… pic.twitter.com/rqQLsN2mFf”
— Nicolás Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) November 2, 2023
