Cuban Foreign Minister in US for Vote Against Blockade

Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez is in New York to attend a new vote of the UN General Assembly on the need to put end to the US blockade against the Island.

Rodriguez who arrived to this city yesterday, will speak on Tuesday to the plenary of 193 countries, in which forum in the last 23 years Washington’s siege have been categorically rejected by the international community.

Politicians from Cuba, USA and Europe Against Blockade

US Secretary of State For Elimination of Cuba Blockade

The draft resolution that will be submitted to the assembly call to lift the sanctions which economic damages to the Caribbean nation amounted to 833.755 billion dollars, given to the depreciation of that currency in against the value of gold.

There is no doubt here about the outcome of the vote, starting from the criticism generated in the five continents the blockade policy applied by United States against Cuba for more than half a century.

In the recent high-level debate of the General Assembly, held between September 28 and October 3, the issue of the US siege and its rejection is agains among the most discussed by the Heads of States and governments and Foreign Ministers.

Nearly 50 leaders referred to the blockade and the nee to stop it, with speeches that included adjectives of such as anachronism, injustice obstacle to development, senseless act, a relic of the Cold War and suffocation for the Cuban people.

Tuesday’s vote will take place at an unprecedented stage, after restoration, on July 20, of bilateral relations between Havana and Washington, without this constituting an end to unilateral and extraterritorial sanctions.