In a publication in the newspaper Financial Express, Simancas highlighted Cuba’s overwhelming victory in the November 2 UN vote on the draft resolution on the need to end the economic, trade and financial blockade, with 187 votes, including India; two against, the United States and Israel; and Ukraine’s abstention.
“In the case of India, we are overwhelmed with gratitude for the position of the Indian government, which was expressed in the vote, but whose expressions of solidarity we constantly receive from various organizations and many representatives of the broader Indian society,” the Cuban diplomat said.
According to the ambassador based in India and simultaneously in Nepal and Bhutan, this outcome is essentially a statement of support for reason and justice, as well as for the United Nations Charter and international law.
Simancas also stressed that Washington continues to ignore the end to the blockade demanded by the majority of the international community for more than three decades, the main aim of which is to depress the country economically and thereby destroy the constitutional order.
He specified that from March 1, 2022 to February 28 of this year, according to conservative figures, Washington’s illegal policies caused losses estimated at four thousand 867 million dollars, affecting all sectors of the island.
The Cuban diplomat also pointed to the tightening of the blockade since 2019 with measures to prevent fuel shipments to Cuba, attacks on the island’s international medical cooperation and increasing harassment of commercial and financial transactions in third markets. among other actions. Simancas stressed that the arbitrary inclusion of Cuba on the list of sponsors of terrorism by the previous White House administration and the ratification by the administration of President Joe Biden had increased the persecution against the Caribbean state.
This measure is a deadly political tool against the Cuban banking and financial system of the US government, which lies about the fact that Cuba is a victim of terrorist actions organized on the territory of the northern country, he added.
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