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US gets more countries to oppose UN resolution condemning its Cuba embargo
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 -
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The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly urged an end to the decades-long US economic embargo on Cuba on Wednesday, but a US lobbying push led several countries to oppose the resolution or abstain for the first time in years.
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push → urge → years
The results showed 130 nations in favor of the resolution, 25 abstaining and 17 countries, including the US and Israel, voting against.
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countries → show → US
That compared with a tally of 165-7, with 12 abstentions, last year.
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Several Western countries, including Germany and Italy, abstained for the first time in many years.
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The UN vote carries political weight, but only the US Congress can lift the Cold War-era embargo.
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The 193-member UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution annually for more than three decades — except for 2020 during the COVID pandemic.
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"I'm satisfied that so many countries now, including major economies like Korea, like Germany, and others have shifted their position," the US envoy to the UN Mike Waltz told reporters after the vote.
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"Diplomacy takes time, but now that we've had a tripling of countries that have shifted, we expect that to only to continue to grow," he said.
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The tensions between the two nations at the UN escalated ahead of the vote, including shouting matches between Cuban and American representatives in the corridors of the UN, as well as on the floor of the General Assembly on Tuesday.
"The US government is once again isolated in its attempt to continue strangling the Cuban people and subjecting them to an act of collective punishment and genocide," Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said in a post on X after the vote.
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"Neither its most insane pretexts nor its pressures nor media circus will prevail over the force of facts and truth," he said.
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The US has maintained a trade embargo on Cuba for more than 60 years and US President Donald Trump's administration has been stepping up the pressure, after using the military in January to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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The United States has voted against the UN resolutions since 1992 but abstained for the first time in 2016 under former President Barack Obama, as Washington and Havana forged a closer relationship.
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Cuba has blamed US sanctions for the crisis the country is mired in, the worst economic downturn in decades characterized by shortages of basic goods, collapsing infrastructure and runaway inflation.
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country → blame → goods
Last month, Trump said at the UN that Cuba was a failed state and freedom would be coming to the island nation.
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Cuba's electrical grid suffered a total collapse last month, plunging the island into darkness and leaving millions without power.
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