Cuba Calls U.N. Vote Against U.S. Trade Embargo a "political Blow"

Cuba Calls U.N. Vote Against U.S. Trade Embargo a "political Blow" for Washington
Cuba called the U.N. General Assembly vote urging the United States to end its long-standing trade embargo against the island "a political blow" for Washington in state-run media Wednesday.

The Communist Party's daily newspaper Granma devoted its front page to the Tuesday vote, which marked the 14th straight year that the 191-member world body approved a resolution calling for the trade and travel restrictions against Cuba to be lifted.

"For the 14th consecutive year, the Revolution delivered another political blow to Washington and its criminal and genocidal strategy against our people," Granma said. The vote was 182 to four, with one abstention, a higher "yes" vote than last year's vote of 179-4 with one abstention. The resolution is not legally binding.

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. Cuban newspapers published the full text of Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque's speech given to the General Assembly in New York as well as remarks by Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon, who told a gathering of government supporters in Havana he thought the embargo would be lifted soon. "Seventy percent of Cubans have grown up under the embargo, but 100 percent will live to see the day it is buried forever," Alarcon said.

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