Cuba Scores Overwhelming Victory at UN General Assembly
Campaign News | Friday, 29 October 2004
179 in Favor, 4 against and One Abstention in Lift the Blockade UN Vote
Cuba Scores Overwhelming Victory at UN General Assembly
United Nations, October 28 - Cuba scored another overwhelming victory at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday -- with a vote of 179 nations in favor of the island's annual resolution to end Washington's blockade against Cuba. Only four countries -- the United States, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau -- voted against the resolution and, therefore, in support of the US blockade of Cuba. Micronesia was the only country to abstain from voting.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque presented the island's resolution entitled "Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba." The island's top diplomat challenged Washington to lift its economic sanctions, saying that the US is afraid to end the blockade because they fear the example of the Cuban Revolution.
Cuba's foreign minister said that similar resolutions have been put to a vote before the United Nations General Assembly since November 1992. Each year for twelve years, the number of nations voting against Washington's genocidal blockade has increased.
179 in Favor, 4 against and One Abstention in Lift the Blockade UN Vote
Havana, 28 Oct. - Today the Cuban population is celebrating the positive result of the vote put to the member countries of the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution put by Cuba to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America.
Pupils in schools and colleges all over Cuba watched and listened to the 20 speeches by different world leaders in favor of Cuba's resolution and the speech given by Cuba's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Felipe Peréz Rocque.
From 10am this morning, Cuban national radio and television stations broadcast the speeches made in support of Cuba's resolutions including those made by Jamaica, Venezuela.
Nearly 4,000 students, party members, politicians and other members of the Cuban society gathered together at the Karl Marx Theatre to follow the voting on giant screens transmitted from the United Nations building in New York. . At the announcement that Cuba's resolution had been carried by 179 votes in favor and only four against with one abstention, there was prolonged cheering and applause from all those present. A musical celebration followed with songs from Los Van Van and well known Cuban singer, Kiki Corona.
How they voted
In favour:
Afganistán, Albania, Argelia, Andorra, Angola, Antigua y Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaiyán, Bahamas, Bahrein, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarús, Bélgica, Belice, Benin, Bhután, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brasil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Camerún, Canadá, Cabo Verde, República Centroafricana, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoras, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croacia, Cuba, Chipre, República Checa, República Popular Democrática de Corea, República Democrática del Congo, Dinamarca, Djibouti, Dominica, República Dominicana, Ecuador, Egipto, Guinea Ecuatorial, Eritrea, Estonia, Etiopía, Fiji, Finlandia, Francia, Gabón, Gambia, Georgia, Alemania, Ghana, Grecia, Granada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haití, Honduras, Hungría, Islandia, India, Indonesia, República Islámica de Irán, Irlanda, Italia, Jamaica, Japón, Jordania, Kazajstán, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kirguistán, República Popular Democrática de Laos, Letonia, Líbano, Lesotho, Liberia, Libia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Madagascar, Malawi, Malasia, Maldivas, Malí, Malta, Mauritania, Mauricio, México, Mónaco, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Países Bajos, Nueva Zelandia, Níger, Nigeria, Noruega, Omán, Pakistán, Panamá, Papua Nueva Guinea, Paraguay, Perú, Filipinas, Polonia, Portugal, Qatar, Corea del Sur, Moldova, Rumanía, Rusia, Rwanda, San Kitts y Nevis, Santa Lucía, San Vicente y las Granadinas, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tomé y Príncipe, Arabia Saudita, Senegal, Serbia y Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leona, Singapur, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, Islas Salomón, Somalia, Sudáfrica, España, Sri Lanka, Sudán, Suriname, Swazilandia, Suecia, Suiza, República Árabe de Siria, Tayikistán, Tailandia, Macedonia, Timor Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad y Tobago, Túnez, Turquía, Turkmenistán, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ucrania, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Reino Unido, Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Against:
Estados Unidos, Israel, Islas Marshall y Palau.
Abstained: Micronesia
Absent: El Salvador, Iraq, Marruecos, Nicaragua, Uzbekistán, Vanuatu, Chad (for non payment of dues).
http://www.radiohc.cu/homeing.htm
