Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez

For the 19th time in a row, the U.N General Assembly approved the draft resolution presented by Cuba (64/6) that establishes the necessity to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States against Cuba, which obtained the majority support of the international community, with 187 votes in favor, 2 against and three abstentions.

After voting and during statements made prior to it, representatives of different Latin American nations and the rest of the world, supported the exemplary response given by Cuba in the face of the imperial blockade, considered to be a glaring violation of the human rights of its people, which has cost, at a conservative estimate, 751.363 billion dollars.

While presenting the resolution to the plenary meeting, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that the transformations we have embarked upon today are a result of the aspirations of Cubans and the sovereign decisions adopted by our people. They are aimed at updating and increasing the efficiency of our economic model, perfecting our society, expanding our culture and developing our socialism. They are not intended to quench the desires or satisfy the interests of the US government, which until today have always been contrary to those of the Cuban people.

The Cuban Minister pointed out that the superpower will find any process that is not conducive to the establishment of a regime subordinated to its interest to be insufficient. But that is not going to happen, he added, because many generations of Cubans have offered and continue to offer the best of their lives to defend the sovereignty and independence of Cuba.
Besides, said the FM, the US government has ignored the many declarations and proposals submitted by the Cuban government, both in public and in private, which ratify our willingness to establish a serious and constructive dialogue under conditions of equality and with full respect for our independence.

While addressing the representatives of the 192 UN member nations, Rodríguez expressed that so far no response has been given by the White House to the new cooperation projects proposed by the Cuban government in the course of the year 2010, aimed at making progress in areas of common interest, like the struggle against drug trafficking and terrorism, the protection of the environment, the prevention of natural disasters, and even to cope with possible accidents that may derive from the oil exploitation in the Gulf of Mexico. An opportunity to advance in areas of mutual benefit for our peoples is once again missed, added the FM.

Quite on the contrary, continued Rodríguez, the U.S. government has continued with its arbitrary practice of adding Cuba’s name to spurious lists, including the list of States that allegedly sponsor international terrorism, produced by the State Department to qualify the behavior of other nations. That country has no moral authority to draft such lists. As a rule it is its name that should appear at the top of them all, stressed the FM.

Translated by Daysi Olano

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