Namibia again denounces US blockade against Cuba

Namibia denounced Wednesday, June 24 to the UN General Assembly that the US blockade of Cuba makes it impossible for the island to develop its full potential, reported Prensa Latina.

The Namibian representative, Neville Gertze, told the international organization that the economic, commercial and financial siege impacts Cuba's possibilities to face the Covid-19 pandemic, including the purchase of food and medicines, noting, however, that this Caribbean island has contributed to the well-being of millions of people around the world.

Furthermore, the end of the blockade represents a fair opportunity for the island to develop its potential and put its capabilities to use, said the diplomat, denouncing the unjust inclusion of this nation in the United States' list of countries that do not fully collaborate in the fight against terrorism, which serves as a justification for maintaining sanctions on the island.

Therefore, he stressed that, as it has done for decades, his country will again support the resolution that calls for an end to the hostile policy of the White House.

For Namibia, Cubans are a family, the ambassador said on a day when international organizations and numerous countries announced that they would vote to lift the siege of Washington.

For the twenty-ninth time, the Cuban government presented Wednesday, June 24 to the United Nations General Assembly the draft resolution “The need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”. Since 1992, the international community has supported this proposal, but the US government persists in its hostile policy.

Former US President Donald Trump applied 243 new measures and sanctions against the island during his four-year term that intensify the blockade, and to this day Joe Biden's government applies the same policy in its entirety.