Year after year, the United Nations General Assembly has demanded the end of that policy maintained by Washington against the island, a siege described by international law as an act of genocide, the lawmaker told Prensa Latina.
Luna, who is also the president of the Ecuador-Cuba Inter-parliamentary friendship group, condemned the White House sanctions, imposed for more than six decades and intensified over time, which limit the Caribbean nation’s capacity to maintain a commercial exchange with other countries worldwide.
If justice exists, the US Government should accept the provision approved by a large majority of counties at the United Nations General Assembly every year, the parliamentarian of the Citizen Revolution said.
He recalled that on August 30, Ecuador’s National Assembly (Parliament) approved by majority a resolution that rejects the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba.
The text seeks that Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintain his Andean nation’s historical position and vote in favor of the document Cuba annually presents before the multilateral agency to end Washington’s siege, Luna stressed.
Next week, Havana will present to the United Nations General Assembly, for the 13th time, the resolution that details the effects of those unilateral coercive measures, which only during the first 14 months of Joe Biden’s administration alone, have caused losses to the island estimated at 6.364 billion dollars.
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