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Re: Israel supports Cuba boycott
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ann hallam
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Nov 20, 2005 14:18 PST
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Hi Rumy
Thanks for Cuba info.
What a coalition, US Marshell Islands and Palau.
Bolton is a vicious bastard.
CIA have tried to say Fidel has Parkinson's - a slander he rebutted in a 5 hour speech the other day.
Ann
Rumy Hasan <rumy-@hotmail.com> wrote:
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No surprise that Israel supports America's dirty work - but complains like
hell when others try and boycott it ...
Rumy
U.N. body calls for an end to Cuban embargo
U.S. ambassador says record 182-4 vote is an ‘exercise in irrelevancy’
Updated: 2:01 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2005
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly urged the United
States Tuesday to end its 44-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, a call
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton dismissed as "a complete exercise in
irrelevancy."
It was the 14th straight year that the 191-member world body approved a
resolution calling for the U.S. economic and commercial embargo against Cuba
to be repealed "as soon as possible."
The vote was 182 to 4, with 1 abstention, a higher "yes" vote than last
year's vote of 179-4 with one abstention.
Many delegates in the General Assembly hall burst into applause when the
result was flashed on an electronic screen.
The United States, Israel, Palau and the Marshall Islands voted against the
resolution, while Micronesia abstained.
Four countries did not indicate any position at all — El Salvador, Iraq,
Morocco and Nicaragua.
The resolution is not legally binding and Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe
Perez Roque noted that the U.S. government has ignored it for the last 13
years.
But he said that didn't diminish "the legal, political, moral and ethical
importance of this vote."
‘A complete exercise in irrelevancy’
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton, who chose to attend a Security Council meeting
to vote on an Iraq resolution rather than the General Assembly vote on Cuba,
told reporters "this is a complete exercise in irrelevancy."
The fact that "this exercise in Cuban propaganda" was adopted by a General
Assembly that has not yet seriously attempted to reform the U.N. Human
Rights Commission or engage in the management reforms supported by U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "tells you something," he said.
Cuba launched a broad public relations campaign drawing attention to its
complaints against the embargo, and speaker after speaker in the General
Assembly debate opposed the U.S. sanctions imposed after Fidel Castro
defeated the CIA-backed assault at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
The embargo, aimed at toppling Castro's socialist system, has been steadily
tightened under President Bush's two terms.
Perez Roque said "most likely" Bush will tighten the blockade even further.
"Never before, as in the last 18 months, was the blockade enforced with so
much viciousness and brutality. Never before had we seen so cruel and
relentless a persecution by a U.S. administration against the economy and
the right of the Cubans to a dignified and decent life," the Cuban minister
said.
"The blockade is an economic war enforced with incomparable zeal at a global
scale," he said. "Now Cuba has two obstacles to overcome: the helpless
imperial haughtiness of President Bush, which has taken him farther than
anyone else in this madness, and the ever-increasing globalization of the
world economy."
But Perez Roque stressed that "the U.S. government is delusional with the
idea that it can overthrow the Cuban revolution."
Jamaica's U.N. Ambassador Stafford Neil, speaking on behalf of the Group of
77, which includes 132 mainly developing countries and China, said its
members oppose "unilateral coercive measures against developing countries."
The Group of 77 recognizes "that the embargo has caused huge material losses
and economic damage to the people of Cuba" and has repeatedly demanded that
the United States lift it, he said.
"The United States and Cuba are two countries whose destinies are linked by
history and geography which should require that the embargo and coercive
measures should be replaced by dialogue and cooperation," Neil said.
The Group of 77 calls on the United States "to heed the voice of the
international community to bring an end to the embargo and to move towards a
process of normalization of relations through peaceful negotiations with
Cuba ...," he said.
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