Unexpectedly, the Government of Javier Milei voted this Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly (UN) against the United States economic embargo on Cuba. The resolution was approved with 187 votes in favor, 2 against (United States and Israel) and one abstention (Moldova).
The surprise is twofold. On the one hand, the president is an avowed anti-communist and, on the other, his foreign policy has been explicitly aligned with that of the United States and Israel. This time, without official explanation until now, the official position was different.
The text, presented by Cuba, calls upon all States to refrain from enacting and applying laws and measures that contravene themurging the repeal of these types of measures to those who still impose them, reported from the UN.
Argentina All of Latin America and the Caribbean voted together. In this way, the General Assembly of The UN approved for the 32nd consecutive time a resolution calling for the end of the United States economic embargo on Cuba which has been in force since 1960 and was tightened at different historical moments.
As an argument, the resolution maintains that “the sovereign equality of States, non-intervention and non-interference in their internal affairs and the freedom of international trade and navigation, enshrined in numerous international legal instruments“.
The Latin American and Caribbean position
All Latin American and Caribbean countries voted against the US embargo. Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Bolivia were some of the countries that defended this position.
Mexico maintained that the blockade ““imposes unjustifiable and unfair measures that must be suspended”. Meanwhile, the representative of Colombia emphasized the contradictions of the international development agenda and the recently adopted Future Pact, with a Unilateral economic and financial blockade that prevents Cuba from achieving sustainable development goals.
The Chilean ambassador argued that the embargo means the “flagrant violation of the rights of more than eleven million Cubans”. For its part, Bolivia declared that The struggle of the people of Cuba is the struggle of Latin America.
Source: Ambito
