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Tuesday,
March 09, 2010
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 Resolution
against US Blockade of Cuba Circulates in the United Nations
HAVANA, Cuba-. A declaration rejecting the almost 50-year-old
US economic blockade of Cuba, which was recently approved in the
Summit for Unity of Latin America and the Caribbean held in Mexico,
began to circulate in the United Nations this monday as an official
document.
The text was submitted to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon by the
island’s permanent representative before the international
organization,
Pedro Núñez Mosquera, so that it can be distributed among the UN
member
nations, Prensa Latina news agency reports.
The document
rejects unilateral and coercive measures against
sovereign countries for political motivations and, in particular,
Washington’s economic, commercial and financial blockade against the
Caribbean island.
The
resolution condemns the implementation of regulations that violate
international law such as the Helms-Burton Act, and urges the US
Government to end its application.
During the
Summit for Unity in Mexico last February, the participating
countries demanded that Washington complies with a series of
successive UN
resolutions calling for the end of the economic blockade of Cuba.
They agreed
that this policy violates international law, causes
enormous damages, hurts the well-being of the Cuban people and has a
negative effect on peace and coexistence among the nations of the
Americas.
Source:
Cuban News Agency
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