HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 25 (acn) Leaders from Latin America, Africa and Asia expressed their strongest rejection of the US economic blockade of Cuba during high-level debates at the United Nations General Assembly.
During the session attended by 193 UN member nations, Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro described the over-50-year US's anti-Cuba policy as anachronism of the Cold War period.
Maduro recalled how much damage the US blockade has inflicted the Cuban people, despite its rejection by the international community during 22 years in a row.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales said the US blockade of Cuba is the most severe, unfair and prolonged package of sanctions ever imposed against a country ever.
Meanwhile, South Africa's Jacob Zuma demanded the island's economic freedom, whose authorities estimated the damage by the blockade at one trillion, 112 billion 534 million dollars. And Sir Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa said the blockade has no ethics and is unfair given its impact on the innocent people of Cuba.
The UN forum will consider a new Cuban resolution on October 28 demanding the lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba. A similar resolution was adopted last year with an overwhelming majority of 188 out of 193 UN member states.
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