Cuba's Victory at the United Nations

By Redaction AHORA / redaccion@ahora.cu / Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:45

Wednesday evening's prime time radio and TV program "The Mesa Redonda" (The Round Table) -- broadcast live on Cubavisión, Cubavisión Internacional, Radio Rebelde and the international shortwave frequencies of Radio Havana Cuba -- dealt with Cuba's overwhelming victory at the United Nations General Assembly today.

The nightly radio and TV program aired the speech by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, delivered just before the vote was taken. The panelists on the Mesa this evening discussed the vote, in which 187 countries voted against Washington's blockade against the island and only three voted for it -- the United States, Israel and Palau.

The Mesa Redonda also broadcast the reply by Bruno Rodríguez to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, who tried in vain to defend Washington's genocidal blockade against Cuba. In the exercise of his right to reply, Cuba's foreign minister said that it is not true that the blockade is a merely a bilateral issue between the United States and Cuba, pointing to the Torricelli Law of 1992 and Helms-Burton Law of 1996. Bruno Rodríguez said that those two pieces of legislation sanction third countries for trading with Cuba, thus giving the U.S. blockade a clear extraterritorial nature.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez also took aim at the European Union and Norway, which came to the aid of the United States and joined in Washington's attack against Cuba, although members of the EU voted against the blockade. Cuba's top diplomat said that given the European Union's complicity with the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo and Abu Grahib, the EU's claim for the defense of human rights has no credibility whatsoever. / RHC

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