World overwhelmingly rejects the blockade at the UN for 33rd consecutive year
News from Cuba | Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Result of the 2025 UN vote on ending the blockade
For the 33rd consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted to condemn the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.
Despite an intense diplomatic offensive waged by the US government aimed at pressuring countries to reverse their longstanding support for an end to the blockade, the international community has once again overwhelmingly backed Cuba’s resolution. 165 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Seven nations – the US, Israel, Ukraine, Hungary, Argentina, Paraguay and North Macedonia – voted against, while twelve abstained. The UK, has it has done consistently since 1996, voted in favour of Cuba's resolution.
In a statement on X, the Cuban Foreign Ministry said: “The pressures from the US were not able to change the verdict, nor hide the irrefutable fact that the economic blockade is an unacceptable weapon of aggression for the international community and the demand of this community that it be ended.”
Reacting to the news, CSC Director Rob Miller said: “At a time when Cuba is experiencing the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, the world has once again stood together to reject the illegal and cruel US Blockade.
It is the aggressive policies of the US that are the biggest factor in the economic difficulties facing the island. Now is the time to finally end the blockade.”
