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.”
During the debate before the vote, US Ambassador to the UN Michael Waltz called on the world to side with the US in opposing the resolution. He said he was going to "set the record straight" and "correct the fake news." He then went on to deliver falsehood after falsehood - from claiming that Cuba supports terrorist organisations to asserting Cuba supports drug cartels and "has undermined democracies" in the West.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla raised a point of order during Waltz's speech. “The representative of the United States is not only lying and deliberately diverting from the topic at hand,” responded Rodríguez, “but he is speaking in a rude and arrogant manner toward the presidency of this session, against the dignity of this Assembly and of its member states. He does so with a lack of culture, crudeness, and arrogance that is unacceptable in this great and democratic forum.”
"This is the United Nations General Assembly, not a Signal chat," he said.
Reacting to the news of the vote, 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.”
