Cross-party group of MPs write to UK Foreign Secretary ahead of UN vote
Campaign News | Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba has written to UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper ahead of the annual vote at the UN General Assembly vote on ending the blockade.
The letter, signed by cross-party MPs and Peers, requests confirmation that the UK government will maintain its longstanding policy of voting in favour of Cuba's resolution, a policy "grounded in the UK's commitment to the UN Charter and the defence of national soverignty."
It details the UK's oppositio to the blockade and that "successive British governments have rightly recognised both the embargo’s adverse impact on the Cuban people and its illegal extraterritorial effects on UK trade and sovereignty."
Hihglighting the particular urgency of this year's vote, the MPs and Peers noted that diplomatic pressure was being exerted on allies of the United States to change their position on the vote.
"For these reasons", the letter concludes, "we believe it is in the best interest of the United Kingdom to continue its established policy and to vote in favour of the resolution. Doing so would underscore our commitment to an independent, rules-based foreign policy that protects UK trading interests and upholds the sovereign equality of nations."
You can read the letter in full here.
