Tomorrow, Wednesday the 30th, the forum of 193 countries will vote on the Cuban Resolution 78/7 of the United Nations General Assembly, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.
This will be the thirty-second time that the General Assembly votes on the project prepared by Cuba against this set of measures that are part of a policy of asphyxiation, anachronistic and genocidal.
The Resolution estimates losses worth five thousand 56.8 million dollars as a result of the siege between March 2023 and February 29, 2024. The figure represents an increase of 189.8 million compared to the previous report.
Meanwhile, the approximate monthly impact is more than 421 million dollars, more than 13.8 million dollars per day, and more than 575,683 dollars in damages for each hour of blockage.
Last September, during the celebrations of the High Level segment of the General Debate at United Nations General Assembly, dozens of heads of state and government and other heads of delegations, ratified the position of rejection of this policy, whose consequences exceed 499 billion dollars after more than six decades.
In November 2023, the text received 187 votes in favor, two votes against (the United States and Israel) and the abstention of one member state (Ukraine).
The regulations recognized the blockade as the central element of the United States policy towards Cuba for more than six decades, with incessant effects on 80 percent of the island's population, who know their country only with the blockade.
Since May of this year, more than 800 international statements demanded the immediate exclusion of Cuba from the US State Department's list of alleged sponsors of terrorism.
For two days, dozens of representatives of the member states take to the podium of the plenary hall, where so many voices have rejected the application of this policy of economic, commercial and financial asphyxiation.
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