“Better without the blockade,” diplomats, officials and their families chanted in this capital, at a ceremony headed by Ambassador Otto Vaillant, at which two banners with that claim were displayed on the façade of the Cuban Embassy.

The phrase has been circulating for days on social media, regarding the presentation on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly of a new draft resolution on the necessity to end the blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States for more than 60 years, a text similar to the one adopted categorically at the UN over the past three decades.

Vaillant briefly expressed confidence in Cuba’s new and resounding victory at the voting on the resolution, slated for Thursday at the United Nations General Assembly.

It will be a new triumph for Cuba and its Revolution, the ambassador stressed.

The banners displayed were made with the support of the Rotativists’ union of the General Confederation of Labor of France (CGT).

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