The UN General Assembly on Wednesday urged the United States to end the decades-old trade embargo imposed against Cuba, as the Caribbean island suffers its worst economic crisis in many years, marked by the collapse of its infrastructure and shortages of basic products. .
The non-binding resolution was approved by 187 countries in favor and only two against, the United States and Israel. Moldova abstained.
Washington has ignored the voting results and maintains sanctions against Havana imposed shortly after Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959, and which were tightened under the administration of former Republican President Donald Trump.
“The blockade against Cuba is an economic, financial and commercial war, and qualifies as a crime of genocide,” said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez.
The chancellor said in a speech that Washington’s sanctions include some fuel exports to the country that have been decisive in the energy crisis and the recent temporary collapse of the national electrical grid.
The vote comes just days before the US presidential election, in which Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican challenger Donald Trump have shown little interest in changing their policy toward Havana.
Minutes after the vote in New York, and in an opposition speech, US diplomat Paul Folmsbee urged the UN to call on the Cuban government to “respect its human rights obligations and democracy.”
It was the 32nd successive time since 1992 that the UN voted in favor of ending the US embargo.
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