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</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Venezuelan Ambassador
raises spook of USA embargo against Cuba at the United Nations<br><br>
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</font><font face="georgia" size=2>Venezuela's Ambassador Fermin Toro
Jimenez has told the 59th General Assembly of the United <br><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">Venezuela's UN
Ambassador<br>
Fermin Toro Jimenez<br>
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<font face="georgia" size=2>Nations UN) in New York this morning
(Thursday) of the necessity to end the United States' economic,
commercial and financial embargo against Cuba.<br><br>
Under Agenda item #28, Toro Jimenez said that the Republic of Venezuela
has in a firm and reiterated manner "rejected the promulgation and
application of laws and dispositions with extraterritorial effects that
ignore the sovereignty of other states."<br><br>
<b>In a transcript of his speech, Toro Jimenez continued:<br>
</font><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#000080">The
blockade imposed to Cuba, with coercive and extraterritorial character,
constitutes a unilateral act of force that violates international law as
well as the economic and commercial exchange rules among countries.
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Commander Che Guevara, in the 19th General Assembly of the United Nations
in 1964, denounced the political character of the imperialistic
domination of the blockade, and its intensification by means of the
implementation of measures imposed by the US Department of Commerce that
totally prohibited the sale of medicine and food to Cuba.<br><br>
With respect to this 'El Che' (Guevara) said: “We wish only to point out
that insofar as Cuba is concerned, the United States of America has not
implemented the explicit recommendations of that conference, and recently
the US government also prohibited the sale of medicines to Cuba. By doing
so it divested itself, once and for all, of the mask of humanitarianism
with which it attempted to disguise the aggressive nature of its blockade
against the people of Cuba.” <br><br>
These words pronounced by Comandante Che Guevara are the concrete
demonstration of what constitutes the imperialistic nature of the
blockade. The aim being pursued is isolation, the asphyxia and the
immobility of Cuba, with the impossible purpose of putting down to its
knees its heroic people, and lead them to give up their decision to be
sovereign and independent, and to determine the course of their own
history. <br><br>
As of that date, the blockade has been intensified, extended, and
deepened through legal instruments that pretend to be applied to all
nations of the world that maintain commercial relations with Cuba.
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<dd>The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was used by
reactionary sectors in the United States to impel these legal instruments
that pretend to be applied to all countries that maintain commercial
relations with Cuba. <br><br>
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</dl><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#000080"><b>The
Torricelli Law, sanctioned by the American Congress, promulgated by
ex-president George Bush, on October 23, 1992, and the Helms-Burton Law
sanctioned on March 12, 1996, by US President William J. Clinton, also
called The Cuban & Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (or the Law of
Liberty) constitutes another step towards the creation of (on the part of
the US) a universal empire with headquarters in Washington. <br><br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080"><b>Venezuela's UN
Ambassador Fermin Toro Jimenez<br><br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#000080">Torricelli
himself said it without any shame in paragraph 6 of section 2 of its
project of law: “The collapse of the Communism in the previous USSR and
Eastern Europe ... allow the US and the democratic community the
opportunity without precedents to promote a pacific transition towards
democracy in Cuba”. <br><br>
The respective project had an introduction that explained the political
intention of the law: “...to promote a peaceful transition towards
Democracy in Cuba” by means of “applying appropriate pressures to the
Cuban government and all kinds of support for the Cuban
people.”<br><br>
At the same time, the United States intensifies the development of new
armaments and the unfolding of armies around of the world, trying to
impose a military and global empire that seeks to force all countries, to
adopt the same political and ideological behavior.<br><br>
Mr. President: The attempt to fold the brave and decided Cuban
people through these types of aggressions has only been able to increase
the consciousness of the people and has consolidated their Revolution.
<u>This is the true result of the Blockade.</u> In addition, the
international community has understood this reality, and has voted
favorably to this resolution, in an overwhelming manner, since 1991,
adding 179 favorable votes in 2003. <br><br>
In spite of all this, the American government, behind the back of the
international community, instead of suspending the Blockade has
intensified it, with other measures that now attempt directly against the
family relations, by restricting visits to Cuba of American citizens and
Cuban residents in the United States. <br><br>
These new measures violate Human rights on a global scale. The health
system ... one of the fundamental pillars of the program of the Cuban
Revolution .. have been the object of the blockade by illegal trade
practices, which prevent the sale by private companies, of the necessary
technology to maintain operative the necessary instruments for the
diagnosis and treatment of patients. Same illicit practices prevail in
education, sport and culture. <br><br>
Our Delegation, in solidarity with the Cuban Government and its people
reiterates our position to reject the promulgation and application of all
type of norms with extraterritorial effects that ignore the sovereignty
of other States. Since this situation has not been stopped we will vote
in favor of the Resolution that has been submitted to the consideration
of this Assembly. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=4 color="#000080">H. Exc. Ambassador
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</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#000080">Fermin Toro
Jimenez<br>
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