A statement of the organization expressed that despite the “arcane pressures and the brazen attempt” of the American administration to prevent the genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade that for more than six decades stifles the largest of the Antilles, the “international community said enough.”

Recalled that, with 136 votes in favour, 9 against and 30 abstentions, the Assembly agreed to hold the debate proposed by Cuba under item 38 of the agenda: “Necessity to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba.”

These 136 countries, with their sovereign and courageous vote, demonstrated that solidarity and international law are above the unilateral impositions of a decaying empire, he emphasized.

The Venezuelan solidarity organization infinitely thanked each of these “sister nations” who, ignoring the pressures and threats of the State Department, supported the need to discuss the consequences of this punitive policy.

He pointed out that the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, rightly called this a “multidimensional, non-conventional war, which has lasted for almost seven decades and has become more ruthless in the last seven months.” “This majority will constitutes a backlash to the truth and a condemnation of the politics of hostility and encirclement that seeks to subdue a people who do not surrender,” he asserted.

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