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The United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of lifting the blockade against Cuba Tuesday, with only the U.S. and Israel voting against. The initiative has been backed by the majority of members for the last 23 years.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented a report that concludes that the economic sanctions, which have caused some US$833.8 billion in damage to the Caribbean island, should be lifted.
Moments before the vote took place, the U.S. representative to the U.N. declared that his country would vote against lifting the sanctions, saying that it was unfortunate that Cuba had presented a motion that was “almost identical” to the one the year before.
His speech followed that of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, who demanded that the U.S. end the “flagrant, massive and systematic violation of human rights of all Cubans” by terminating the half-century financial and economic blockade. Rodriguez pointed out the company Electra refused to supply Cuban hospitals with cancer drugs.
Read more @: UN Votes in Favor of Ending Cuban Blockade 191-2
Once again the UN has voted in favor of ending the Cuban blockade and once again the only two powers to vote against the measure were the USA and Israel. This time it was a bit more interesting because their was speculation that the US might actually abstain from the vote, but as we can see that did not happen.