Starting today at 10:00 am, the United Nations General Assembly will vote for the thirtieth time on the Cuban resolution Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.
The debate on the text, which had begun on Wednesday, will continue this Thursday at the headquarters of the global organization, in New York, where the intervention of the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, and other representatives of different countries and social and political organizations.
Precisely in New York, the images against the United States blockade against Cuba were projected last night, on the eve of the vote at the United Nations, which accompany this text, according to Cubadebate.
Authorities of the Caribbean nation have warned that the US government persists in its position of ignoring these results and has intensified the siege by employing a policy of economic suffocation in an attempt to deliberately provoke the collapse of the country.
The report attached to the document proposed for voting indicates that only between August 2021 and February 2022, the largest of the Antilles registered losses valued at 3,806.5 million dollars, a figure exponentially higher than that reported in the previous period between January and July 2021.
Regarding to official figures, in the first 14 months of the Joseph Biden administration, the effects caused by this policy reached six thousand 364 million dollars, which shows an unprecedented tightening of sanctions.
This Wednesday, social and political organizations such as the Non-Aligned Movement, the African Union, the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, the Caribbean Community, the Group of 77 + China and the Community of Latin American States and Caribbeans.
Along these lines, diplomatic representatives from countries such as Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran, Syria and Bolivia rejected the blockade imposed on Cuba more than six decades ago and intensified in the context of the pandemic and world economic crisis.
Since 1992, the Cuban resolution has received the repeated and majority support of the members that make up the global mechanism for conflict mediation and the promotion of sustainable development objectives.
• Chronology United Nations vote against blockade against Cuba
→ 1991: For the first time, Cuba presents the Draft Resolution against the blockade before the United Nations. A few days after that, the Cuban delegation withdraws the document, given the pressure from Washington on a large part of the countries represented.
→ 1992: For the second time, Cuba presents to the UN the Draft Resolution against the economic, financial and commercial blockade applied by the United States. The result of the vote was: in favor, 59; against, three; abstentions, 71; absences, 46. Countries that voted against: USA, Israel and Romania.
→ 1993: In favour, 88; against, four; abstentions, 57; absences, 35. Voted against: USA, Israel, Albania and Paraguay.
→ 1994: In favour, 101; against, two; abstentions, 48; absences, 33. Voted against: USA and Israel.
→ 1995: In favour, 117; against, three; abstentions, 38; absences, 27. Voted against: USA, Israel and Uzbekistan.
→ 1996: In favour, 137; against: three; abstentions, 25; absences, 20. Voted against: USA, Israel and Uzbekistan.
→ 1997: In favour, 143; against, three; abstentions, 17; absences, 22. Voted against: USA, Israel and Uzbekistan.
→ 1998: In favour, 157; against, two; abstentions, 12; absences, 14. Voted against: USA and Israel.
→ 1999: In favour, 155; against, two; abstentions, eight; absences, 23. Voted against: USA and Israel.
→ 2000: In favour, 167; against, three; abstentions, four; absences, 15. Voted against: USA, Israel and Marshall Islands.
→ 2001: In favour, 167; against, three; abstentions, three; absences, 16. Voted against: USA, Israel and Marshall Islands.
→ 2002: In favour, 173; against, three; abstentions, four; absences, 11. Voted against: USA, Israel and Marshall Islands.
→ 2003: In favour, 179; against, three; abstentions, two; absences, seven. Voted against: USA, Israel and Marshall Islands.
→ 2004: In favour, 179; against, four; abstentions seven; absences, seven.
→ 2005: In favour, 182; against, four; abstentions, one; absences, four. Voted against: USA, Israel, Palau and Marshall Islands.
→ 2006: In favour, 183; against, four; abstentions, one Voted against: USA, Israel, Palau and Marshall Islands.
→ 2007: In favour, 184; against, four; abstentions, one Voted against: USA, Israel, Palau and Marshall Islands.
→ 2008: In favour, 185; against, three; abstentions, two. Voted against: US, Israel and Palau.
→ 2009: In favour, 187; against, three; abstentions, two. Voted against: United States, Israel and Palau.
→ 2010: In favour, 187; against, two; abstentions, three. Voted against: United States and Israel.
→ 2011: In favour, 186; against, two; abstentions, three; absences, two Voted against: United States and Israel.
→ 2012: In favour, 188; against, three; abstentions, two. Voted against: United States, Israel and Palau.
→ 2013: In favour, 188; against, two; abstentions, three. The United States, Israel voted against, and the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau abstained.
→ 2014: In favor, 188, against, two; abstentions, three. Voted against: United States and Israel; abstained: Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.
→ 2015: In favor, 191, two against: the United States and Israel, and no abstentions.
→ 2016: In favour, 191, no votes against; abstentions, two: USA and Israel.→ 2017: In favor, 191, two against: the United States and Israel, and no abstentions.
→ 2018: In favor, 189, two against: the United States and Israel, and no abstentions. Absent: Ukraine and Moldova.→ 2019: In favor, 187 nations; against, three; abstentions, 2. The United States, Brazil and Israel voted against and Colombia and Ukraine abstained.
→2020: Due to the epidemiological situation at a global level, and in particular in the United States, including the city of New York, headquarters of the UN, changes were made in the development of the work of the General Assembly in its period of sessions 75, so the presentation of the report on the need to end the blockade was transferred.
→2021: In favour, 184 countries; two against: the United States and Israel; and three countries abstained from the vote: Colombia, Ukraine and Brazil.
(With information from ACN and Cubadebate)