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United States urges the end of the United States embargo on Cuba, the United States raises concerns about rights







UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted its twenty-seventh annual resolution calling for an end to the US economic blockade against Cuba after a failed attempt by Washington to amend the text to boost Cuba to improve its human rights record. 











FILE PHOTO: The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, speaks at a press conference at the United States headquarters in New York City, New York, USA. UU., July 20, 2018. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid / Stock Photo





The vote of the USA UU It may have political weight, but only the US Congress. UU It can lift the embargo for more than 50 years. The United States and Israel voted against the resolution, 189 countries voted in favor and Ukraine and Moldova did not vote. 

The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told the General Assembly that the resolution was an opportunity for countries to "feel that they can hit the United States in the eyes." 

"But you are not hurting the United States when you do this, literally, you are hurting the Cuban people by telling the regime that their treatment of their people is acceptable," he said before the vote.  

The United States systematically voted against US resolutions. UU For 24 years, but they abstained for the first time in 2016 with former President Barack Obama, as Washington and Havana established a closer relationship. 

But relations have drastically deteriorated since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, returned to Cuba's characterizations during the Cold War and reinforced the trade and travel restrictions Obama had eased. 

The United States voted against the US resolution last year along with its ally Israel. The remaining 191 members of the General Assembly voted in favor. 

This year, the United States proposed eight amendments to the resolution, including a call to Cuba to "fully grant its citizens internationally recognized civil, political and economic rights and freedoms, including freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of expression. free access to information ". 

But all the amendments failed after more than 113 countries voted against. Only the United States, Israel and Ukraine voted in favor of the eight amendments. More than 65 countries abstained.   

Cuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, said on Thursday that the United States government lacked the "moral authority" to criticize Cuba and others about human rights.  

"The embargo is a violation of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law," he said before the vote. "It is an act of aggression and an act of economic warfare that upsets international peace and order." 

Last month, the United States launched a campaign at the United Nations that it said was designed to highlight the plight of Cuban political prisoners. Protesting Cuban and Bolivian diplomats drowned the launch screaming, singing and banging their hands on the desks. 





Report by Michelle Nichols, Edited by Rosalba O'Brien





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