UN General Assembly renews long-standing call for end to US embargo against Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Source: United Nations


1 November 2018

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted in favour of condemning the United States economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba - a call it has made every year since 1992.

A record total of 189 UN Member States voted in favour, with Israel and the US voting against the resolution, urging all States to “refrain from promulgating and applying laws and measures” which among other things, in the case of the embargo, interfere with the freedom of trade and navigation. There were no abstentions.

The Assembly called upon States “that have and continue to apply such laws and measures to take the steps necessary to repeal or invalidate them as soon as possible.”

Through the resolution, the General Assembly also decided to include the agenda item entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba,” in the provisional agenda of next year’s session.



Read more: https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/11/1024672

[Achilleaze]

1. "But we repubes like being domestic & international a-holes." - Dirty Donny* (R)

"It's what the kremlin demands of me and my cabal of KGOP republican cronies." - Dirty Donny* (R)

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[sinkingfeeling]

2. The embargo serves absolutely no purpose.

[ck4829]

3. +1