Nueva York, USA, 30 September 2019. Addressing the General Debate at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly on 29 September, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, MP, Prime Minister of Jamaica, reiterated his country's stance against the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba.
The Prime Minister expressed: "Societies function best when an inclusive global environment is created, where no one feels left behind. Implementation of the SDGs must be people-centered. Embargoes and other financial and economic barriers must not become tools to prevent people, such as our neighbours, the citizens the Republic of Cuba, from attaining their rightful development goals. Jamaica continues to call for a lifting of the embargoes against that country.".
With this statement, Jamaica responds the call ˗with this common purpose˗ made by other CARICOM member countries, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Belize, Suriname and Guyana.
Since 1992, the UN General Assembly has passed 27 resolutions calling for the US Government to end its blockade policy against Cuba.