[NYTr] Cuba: Perez Roque Confident of Overwhelming UN Condemnation of US Blockade
 
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:40:53 -0500 (CDT)

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Cuba's FM Confident of Overwhelming UN Condemnation of US Blockade

Havana, Oct 4 (acn) Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said on 
Wednesday that he expects an overwhelming victory at the United Nations 
General Assembly on October 30th, when Cuba will present a resolution 
condemning the almost 50-year-old blockade imposed by the United States 
against the Cuban people.

Addressing hundreds of students and professors at the Plaza Agramonte 
of the University of Havana, Perez Roque expressed his confidence on an 
overwhelming triumph that will show the world's support of the island's 
struggle against the blockade and their rejection of the US 
Government's genocidal policy against the Cuban people, which 
constitutes a flagrant violation of international law.

He recalled that, for the 16th time since 1992, Cuba will submit for 
discussion and approval the report "Necessity of Ending the Economic, 
Commercial and Financial Blockade Imposed by the United States against 
Cuba", which last year received the support of 183 countries.

"We submit this report hoping that it will help the world learn not 
only about the history of the blockade and its consequences over the 
last year, but also about the exemplary resistance of the Cuban 
people," stressed the top diplomat who added that, in 48 years, the US 
blockade has cost the island economic losses to the tune of 89 billion 
dollars.

"Cuba will not give up. We will continue bringing this issue to the 
United Nations because we are confident that the Empire will not be 
able to ignore the world's demand forever, as it happened with the 
Apartheid and the unjust imprisonment of Mandela," Perez Roque said.

An audiovisual campaign against the blockade that will soon be 
broadcast by Cuban media and that was designed by talented designers, 
publicists, journalists and students, was also presented at the 
University of Havana.

During the rally, Ernesto Fernandez, member of the National Bureau of 
the Cuban Young Communist League, read a declaration of the Cuban youth 
against the US blockade.
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