Abreu recalled that this week, the UN General Assembly reiterated for the thirty-second time its position against Washington’s economic blockade and asked the US to end that measure, which causes so much damage to families and Cuba’s economic and commercial relations.

The resolution “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States of America against Cuba” received 187 votes in favor, two against (United States and Israel) and one abstention (Moldova).

“It is almost incredible and surprising that the vast majority of UN members vote every year since 1992 against the absurd blockade against Cuba and that it continues,” without taking into account the will of its member states, Abreu told Prensa Latina.

For the Dominican political leader, it is absurd that a single country is capable of circumventing the international will, not only in the case of Cuba, but in the serious situations that other countries and going through. In his opinion, it is absolutely antidemocratic that a country (the United States) uses the veto power in the UN Security Council to unilaterally stop the will of the members of an international organization like the UN and thus allow Israel to continue its plans of extermination.

In Cuba’s case, “it has proven that it is not a terrorist, that it does not invade countries and respects the political system chosen by other nations,” Abreu said, adding that for all of this “the Revolution deserves respect.”

Cuba’s resolution at the UN reaffirms, among other principles, the sovereign equality of States, non-intervention and non-interference in their internal affairs and the freedom of international trade and navigation.

It urges the States to refrain from promulgating and applying laws and measures that contravene them, urging to repeal such measures by those who still impose them.

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