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ABC NewsCuba Embargo Issue Goes to the U.N.
General Assembly Will Consider Legality of U.S. Sanctions Against Cuba
By MARC FRANK
HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 19, 2007
Share Once again, the U.N. General Assembly will take up the legality of the 45-year-old U.S. embargo on Cuba when it convenes this fall.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque released a 56-page report on the embargo Tuesday, calling it devastating and an attempt to "beat our people into submission with hunger and disease."
A General Assembly resolution has passed by huge margins for the last 15 years. It demands an end to the U.S. sanctions, calling them a violation of international law.
However the United States has routinely ignored the resolutions because General Assembly decisions are not binding on U.N. members.
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