UN member states vote to end US embargo on Cuba

By VonDez Phipps
Reporter-SKNVibes.com

~~Adz:Right~~ HAVANA, Cuba – WITH very little opposition, over 96 percent of the United Nations General Assembly has voted to remove the long-standing US Trade and Economic Embargo held on Cuba for over 46 years.

According to Caribbean Net News, exactly 185 members of the 192 UN States represented voted in favour of the “call upon all states to refrain from promulgating and applying laws and measures in conformity with their obligations under the Charter of the United Nations and international law”.

The United States, Israel and Palau voted against the resolution while Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained. The report also stated that the assembly urged “states that have and continue to apply such laws and measures to take the necessary steps to repeal or invalidate them as soon as possible in accordance with their legal regime”.

The Cuban representative at the UN presented the documented proposal entitled “Necessity to put an end to the Economic, Financial and Commercial Embargo of the US to Cuba” and received a favourable result.

Cuban Ambassador to St. Kitts-Nevis, Ana Maria Gonsalves Suarez expressed pleasure in the voting results at the UN.

She stated that the removal of the embargo would represent moral and political victory, as she underscores that Cuba had continuously been supported by a large number of countries.

“The embargo has not allowed Cuba to develop economically and has caused the Cuban people a lot of suffering. We have lost more than US$ 93B during the last 50 years,” she said.

The Ambassador added that lifting the embargo would be justice to Cuba and would allow for the people of the nation to fully enjoy its human rights.