NEW YORK : United Nations, Sep 30 (Prensa Latina) After concluding the High-Level Segment of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the call to lift the US blockade against Cuba was heard more than 40 times
Ambassador Dionisio Da Costa Babo Soares, Permanent Representative of East Timor to the United Nations, closed the speakers’ speeches.
His remarks included the condemnation of the long-standing unilateral blockade against the Caribbean country.
The diplomat stated, “East Timor supports the elimination of the US economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the Republic of Cuba, which is, in our opinion, a violation of human rights that harms the Cuban people, limiting their access to essential goods.”
Cuba is one of Timor-Leste’s closest partners in the healthcare sector, the Timorese representative noted, arguing that Cuba has trained “more than 1,000 professionals in the Caribbean nation and provided direct care to our patients in hospitals.”
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada said, “We denounce and condemn, along with all the peoples of the world, the horrific, odious, and execrable policies of the criminal US economic blockade, aggressions with coercive, arbitrary, and unilateral measures.
Brazil, Suriname, South Africa, Mozambique, Colombia, Vietnam, Angola, Nauru, Namibia, Guyana, the Congo, Bolivia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Dominica, Tanzania, Uganda, Sao Tome and Principe, and Mexico joined the list of nations that expressed their support for Cuba.
Also included are Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Jamaica, Belize, Lesotho, Antigua and Barbuda, Tuvalu, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, the Bahamas, Grenada, Burkina Faso, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Laos, Russia, Belarus, Eritrea, Saint Lucia, and Honduras.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez affirmed at UNGA on Saturday that the US blockade against his country persists and is becoming extremely strict.
