The world reaffirms support for Cuba, demands an end to US blockade
United Nations, Nov 7 (Prensa Latina) With the support of 187 of its member states, the UN General Assembly adopted on Thursday a new resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.
There were two abstentions: Colombia and Ukraine; and only Israel and Brazil voted alongside the US against the lifting of the blockade, becoming isolated amid the demand of the majority of the international community.
Cuban president highlights international vote against the blockade
Havana, Nov 7 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel highlighted on Thursday the majority support of the international community for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against the island for almost six decades.
'The blockade is real and we will defeat it with the support of the international community that today overwhelmingly voted for Cuba against the blockade. Servile governments show where their affinities lie. And they are alone along with the empire,' Diaz-Canel wrote on his Twitter account.
Cuba denounces US maneuvers before UN vote on blockade
United Nations, Nov 4 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced on Monday that the US authorities take pressure and blackmail actions with a view to the coming vote on the resolution calling for the end of the US blockade.
In this way, they want to erode the pattern of votes supporting Cuba's project at the United Nations General Assembly to demand the end of that economic, commercial and financial siege, he told the UN accredited press.
Díaz-Canel: A better world is possible, and urgently necessary! Let us struggle for it!
Speech by Miguel M. Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the closing of the Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Conference, For Democracy and Against Neoliberalism, at Havana’s Convention Center, November 3, 2019
(Transcript - Presidency of the Republic)
(Exclamations of: "Diaz-Canel, for sure, give it to the Yankees!" And "Thank you, Cuba, guarantor of peace!")
Thanks to all of you.
I think we all agree that there is no better speech than that of the poets. (Laughter), but, well, we have to conduct the closing.
More than 55 countries will attend the International Fair of Havana
Havana, Nov 1 (Prensa Latina) More than 55 countries will attend the 37th International Fair of Havana (FIHAV), scheduled to open next Monday with a total of 20,000 square meters of exhibition space, according to an official source.
In his Twitter account, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca, said the event confirms the failure of US policy to isolate this country.