UN High Level-Meeting Calls to Lift United States Economic Blockade on Cuba Escambray
go to original September 21, 2016

Since yesterday morning, when the general debate of the 71st session began, until night, the heads of State from several countries called for the lifting of the siege and welcomed the progress in face of the normalization of relations between Havana and Washington.

Uruguay’s President, Tabare Vazquez, described as unjust the blockade to the island. He stated that while it is in force, the South American nation will continue claiming its definitive lifting at the Assembly.

In our speech last year, we express our hope that this period of session was the last to analyze the issue, he said.

For its part, Costa Rican President, Luis Guillermo Solis, said in the forum the need of hearing that global demand to end the siege, applied by the White House for more than 50 years.

‘We think it is time to pay more attention to the systematic, almost unanimous demands, of the international community to lift the economic, commercial and financial blockade on Cuba,’ he said.

Mexico’s President, Enrique Peña Nieto, and Brazil’s Michel Temer, called for the cessation of the blockade imposed on the Caribbean nation.

Read the rest at Escambray

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