Xinhua News Agency, Havana, July 29 (Reporter Zhu Wanjun) Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Annayansi Rodríguez announced on the 29th that Cuba has decided to postpone its submission to the United Nations General Assembly in May 2021, requesting that the United States end its economic and financial blockade against Cuba. And the draft resolution related to the trade embargo. In previous years, Cuba generally submitted similar draft resolutions to the UN General Assembly in late October or early November.
Rodriguez said that considering the development of the new crown epidemic and its impact on the work of the United Nations headquarters in New York, Cuba decided to postpone the submission of the draft resolution to the United Nations General Assembly to ensure its debate and voting process. She said that the United States ignored the appeals of the international community and imposed a long-term blockade on Cuba, and even tightened sanctions against Cuba during the epidemic. Cuba will continue to expose and criticize the U.S. blockade on various occasions.
From 1992 to 2019, the United Nations General Assembly passed the relevant draft resolution submitted by Cuba for 28 consecutive years calling for the United States to end its economic, financial embargo and trade embargo against Cuba.
Affected by the epidemic, the general debate of the 75th UN General Assembly to be held in September this year will be held for the first time by broadcasting speeches.
After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the US government adopted a hostile policy towards Cuba. In 1961, the United States and Cuba severed diplomatic relations. The following year, the United States imposed an economic and financial blockade and trade embargo against Cuba. In July 2015, the United States and Cuba officially resumed diplomatic relations, but the United States has not fully lifted the blockade against Cuba. After Trump took office as US president, the US government tightened its policy towards Cuba.