"The U.S. government knows that the vast majority of the international community supports the need to end the blockade."
This was stated with certainty by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs, prior to the presentation, debate, and vote on October 28 and 29 at the UN on the draft resolution demanding an end to this genocidal policy against the island. "It will be a victory for the peoples, for international law, and a great victory for the Cuban Revolution and for Cuba," he said.
Regarding the anxiety reflected by the White House in this regard, he said that it will "once again receive the punishment of absolute isolation, singling out, criticism, and direct appeals from governments around the world to lift the blockade."
Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío said on Facebook that almost all UN member states will vote in favor of Cuba because they are determined to promote strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the UN Charter.
They will support the resolution, he says, because they understand the danger of allowing a superpower to dictate to each country what kind of relationship it can have with Cuba or other states. Furthermore, "because he knows Cuba, its history of peace, solidarity, and cooperation; its enormous efforts to defend and rebuild the country despite the unequal aggression to which it is subjected; and because he does not believe in the falsehoods promoted by the Secretary of State and his mafia-like machinery of defamation and intimidation."
