President of UN General Assembly Condemns US Blockade of Cuba

[magbana]

ACN: President of UN General Assembly Condemns US Blockade of Cuba
Posted by: "Walter Lippmann" [email protected] walterlx
Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:54 am (PDT)
President of UN General Assembly Condemns US Blockade of Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 28 (acn) The president of the UN General Assembly,
Miguel d'Escoto, said on Monday that the US economic blockade of Cuba is
an `unhealthy obsession.'

Speaking to Prensa Latina news agency, d'Escoto added that "the US
Government simply can't tolerate that there is a place like Cuba that
defends solidarity and the values that the world needs for the survival
of the human species."

The veteran Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest made these
statements only two days before the UN General Assembly votes on a Cuban
resolution condemning Washington's almost fifty-year-old blockade of the
Caribbean nation.

The resolution, which is entitled `Necessity to End the Economic, Trade
and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States against Cuba' and
has been circulating at the General Assembly since last week, is
scheduled to be voted on during a plenary session of the international
body.

Last year, 184 nations supported the resolution, four opposed and one
abstained.

However, in spite of this overwhelming international rejection of the
blockade, Washington continues to implement this coercive measure as UN
resolutions are non-binding.

"In any international event, like in the case of the US blockade against
Cuba, UN resolutions are taken as mere recommendations," d'Escoto said.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Great to see this. The vote will be held in the next few days. Wonder if Bush will be able

to twist so many arms THIS TIME that he'll have as many as 2 or 3 countries supporting his embargo!

As you remember, the deteriorated creatures who support the embargo have been able to count on Israel (although Israel trades freely with Cuba) and even the dreaded Marshall Islands, and Palau to back up the perverted, sadistic U.S. right-wing lunatic, unspeakably stupid, crude, and out of line embargo.

As soon as the U.S. Congress removes that travel ban, you can damned well BET your life that there will be one hell of a lot of wildly embarrassed filthy liars in the U.S. right-wing propaganda machine, and a whole lot of sociopaths in South Florida who are going to be exposed as the complete social perverts they are, and will always be, once the general American public starts coming and going from and to Cuba.

I, by God, CANNOT WAIT to see them held up to the entire country for ridicule. Too goddamned bad we can't put them in stocks, for people who hate their filthy behavior to walk by, and share a few of their sentiments with them.





Roger Noriega, Otto Reich, so good to see you out and about.
Do you have a few minutes to talk? How's Jeb, how's Orlando Bosch
these days? How are those wildly ugly Republican Congresscritters
from Miami, your henchmen? See them much since the Democrats took
their seats, after hearing their lies for years, their dirty tricks
with Tom Delay, Jesse Helms, Dan Burton, Robert Torricelli, etc.?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Hope it won't be necessary too much longer for the UN to have to condemn this piece of filth embargo

Once the sane people get back to work, it will disappear into the mist one day, once this country is governed by civilized people.