Member states have adopted similar resolutions almost every year since 1992, often by large margins. The UN General Assembly has voted again for an end to the US embargo on Cuba, although support for the resolution declined to its lowest level in more than 30 years.
The resolution, which is proposed and accepted practically every year since 1992, was adopted by 130 votes in support, 17 against and 25 abstentions. That’s the lowest level of support since 1995. The initiative was backed by more than 160 countries last year. Germany, Italy and Latvia abstained for the first time in 34 years .
Among the countries voting against the resolution for the first time were Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Morocco, Slovenia and Bosnia. The US embargo stretches back to 1960, after the revolution of Fidel Castro and the nationalisation of US-owned property. The United States and Cuba are now in disagreement, with Washington beginning a new campaign of pressure that features limitations on oil supply and wide-ranging sanctions that have badly hurt Cuba’s economy.
Just prior to the vote in New York, Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the United Nations, dismissed the notion of a blockade on Cuba and declared that “the plight of the Cuban people is solely the fault of this corrupt communist regime.
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