Commission President Timoteo Zambrano said that the decision was made unanimously and on the occasion of Cuban Ambassador Dagoberto Rodriguez’s meeting with the members of these parliamentary bodies.

The initiative also responds to the decision of the Cuban Government to present the draft resolution on the necessity to put an end to the blockade that keeps its people oppressed, at the United Nations General Assembly on November 1 and 2, according to a press release on the Parliament’s website.

Zambrano stressed that there are “enough reasons to condemn the blockade” and commented on how the coercive measures against Cuba, Venezuela and other nations are designed to prevail in time without the possibility of being lifted.

“Cuba is the best example of this with more than sixty years of blockade,” the lawmaker noted.

He added that these sanctions have licenses that can be renewed every six months and thus decide the fate of the countries, for which reason he considered it “necessary to continue to fight against them.”

The Cuban ambassador explained at the meeting the damage caused by the US blockade in more than 60 years and assured that he expects a mass accompaniment from the world in the vote and rejection of Washington’s economic, commercial and financial blockade.

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