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As General Assembly Demands End to Cuba [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"] blockade, [/FONT] for Twenty-Third Consecutive Year, Country’s Foreign Minister Cites Losses Exceeding $1 Trillion
28 October 2014
United States Delegate Says Cuban Policies to Blame for Economic Woes
The General Assembly today adopted a resolution which for the twenty-third year in a row called for an end to the United States economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba.
Exposing an intractable demarcation of the international community, 188 Member States voted in favour and, as in previous years, the United States and Israel voted against. Three small island States — Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and Palau — abstained from the vote.
By the terms of the text, the Assembly reiterated its call upon States to refrain from promulgating and applying laws and regulations, such as the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, the extraterritorial effects of which affected the sovereignty of other States, the legitimate interests of entities or persons under their jurisdiction and the freedom of trade and navigation.
It once again urged States that had and continued to apply such laws to repeal or invalidate them as soon as possible, in line with their obligations under the United Nations Charter and international law.
In recent times, the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"] blockade, [/FONT] imposed by the United States against Cuba had been tightened, and its extraterritorial implementation had also been strengthened through the imposition of unprecedented fines, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba told the Assembly as he introduced the draft resolution. The accumulated economic damages of the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"] blockade, [/FONT] totalled $1.1 trillion, based on the price of gold.
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https://www.un.org/press/en/2014/ga11574.doc.htm
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