The US blockade against Cuba is a brutality that should come to an end, because the international community will without any doubt support resolution to cease it, Venezuelan UN Ambassador Rafael Ramirez said today.
In statements on occasion of the new vote on that siege at the UN General Assembly on October 27, the diplomat stressed the rejection of his country and the world to the economic, commercial and financial sanctions in force for more than 50 years. "I think as always, Cuba will have at the United Nations with the utmost solidarity in the world," he said.
According to Ramirez, the struggle of the Cuban people against the blockade has become a universal cause against injustice.
"The brutal measure just now has supporters in the most backward sectors, even within the United States itself," the diplomat said eight days before the presentation at the Assembly of the 23 draft resolution calling for lifting the siege, since 1992.
The initiative received in 2014 188 votes of 193 possible, the same occurred in the two previous votes, with the isolated refusal of the United States and Israel.
This time, expectations seem focused on the position Washington will assume after US President Barack Obama, asked the Congress several times to end the blockade, become law with the approval of the Helms-Burton Act in 1996.
"There is a strong rumor that the United States will abstain in this vote, we will see how it turns out," said Ramirez.
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