The blockade maintained by the United States against Cuba prevents programs of collaboration by diverse UN agencies with the Island, a report circulating Monday at the UN recounts.
The report, signed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, is titled “Need to End the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States against Cuba,” and is for the November UN General Assembly debates on this part of US foreign policy.
This will be the 14th consecutive time the US will have to swallow its most bitter pill at the UN: the nearly unanimous rejection by the nations of the world of its Cuban blockade.
The situation has not changed in the past 12 months and the US blockade has consequences in all areas of Cubas social and economic life, as well as continually and unilaterally influencing third countries, including even UN agencies, the report notes.
– World Food Program: The US blockade continues affecting food aid to Cuba to vulnerable groups in schools, hospitals, nursery schools and womens shelters.
– World Food Program: Cubas attempts to donate sugar for projects in other countries create a contretemps.
– UN Food and Agriculture Organization: Projects with Cuba are hampered by lack of machine parts, seeds and fertilizers for farming.
– World Health Organization and UN Population Fund: These organizations report the impossibility of buying equipment, medicines and laboratory materials produced by US firms if they are for Cuba.
Kilder: Prensa Latina (Cuba) og The Push Journal
