Analysts chide Government for Cuba vote
- On Wednesday, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith announced Jamaica was among 25 countries that abstained from the United Nations General Assembly vote on the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
- The 193-member General Assembly adopted the resolution with 130 nations voting in favor and 17 against, reflecting widespread international opposition to U.S. restrictions on the island.
- Counsellor Soumya Nair of India's Permanent Mission emphasized the embargo severely impacted Cuba's health system, leading to shortages of over 60 percent of essential medicines and food production declining by more than 50 percent.
- Tensions escalated on Tuesday at the UNGA when Ambassador Mike Waltz and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla engaged in a heated verbal confrontation over Cuba's situation at the UN.
- Prime Minister Andrew Holness reaffirmed Jamaica's solidarity with Cuba while calling for dialogue with Washington to improve conditions, reflecting the nation's complex diplomatic balancing act between regional and U.S. interests.
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India backs UN resolution to end US embargo on Cuba, opposes extraterritorial laws
India has formally reiterated its opposition to the application of extraterritorial laws that infringe upon the sovereignty of independent nations, aligning itself with a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the termination of the United States' long-standing embargo against Cuba. Speaking at the Assembly, Soumya Nair, a counsellor in India's Permanent Mission to the UN, articulated New Delhi's position that nations should refr…
Rome interrupts a long series of favorable votes. Washington's diplomatic pressure reduces from 165 to 130 countries deployed against sanctions
India votes for UNGA resolution to end US embargo on Cuba
India has voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution urging the US to end its economic, commercial, and financial embargo against Cuba. The resolution, adopted on Wednesday, saw 130 countries support the call to lift restrictions that have severely impacted Cuba's economy, healthcare, and food production. The article also details a heated exchange between US and Cuban diplomats during the UNGA session.
Officially, the relations between Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump are at the very least historical, but if the government is to bend its head in Washington the government does not back down. It happened yesterday in New York, where the General Assembly of the United Nations called by a large majority for the end of the US economic embargo against Cuba, in force [...] The article Cuba, Italy bows to the United States and abstains on the UN resolu…
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