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Cuba expecting a resounding victory
against the blockade at the UN
BY IVAN TERRERO – for
Granma International –
FOREIGN Minister Felipe Pérez Roque affirmed that
Cuba is hoping for a victory on October 28 when the
UN General Assembly debates the U.S. blockade of
Cuba.
After participating in a digital photography
presentation entitled “In spite of the blockade” and
the Ministry’s first multimedia presentation NO
more blockade, the Cuban minister expressed his
confidence that the UN General Assembly will once
again voice its opposition to Washington’s hostile
policy.
In
regards to the vote on the resolution headed “The
need to put an end to the U.S. economic,
commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba,” Pérez
Roque affirmed: “We expect a victory and resounding
support from the international community.”
The
Cuban Minister, described the NO more blockade
CD-ROM, put together by the Cuban Ministry of
Foreign Affairs with support from Génesis
Multimedia, a division of Prensa Latina, as “a
modest contribution to the battle of our people to
make known the truth about the blockade. “
He
also stated that this anti-Cuban policy maintained
and reinforced by successive U.S. governments is a
crime of genocide, which causes great suffering to
the Cuban people.
Later on, he indicated that the compact disc is
about to be distributed within the UN as part of a
campaign to familiarize its members with the
consequences of these attempts to asphyxiate Cuba,
as well as to provide testimonies of resistance.
This
multimedia product was described as a historical
record of the aggressive policies of the last 10
U.S. administrations toward the Caribbean nation,
and its digital format includes documents which
cover the origins of Washington’s anti-Cuban
activities as well as the most recent array of
measures passed this past May by the current
occupier of the White House, President George W.
Bush.
Organized in 10 segments, the multimedia
presentation contains speeches that have been made
before the UN regarding the resolutions on the
blockade, reports from the UN Secretary general on
this issue, videos and photos, and the main
anti-Cuban activities perpetrated by each of the
U.S. administrations.
Likewise, with the objective of presenting more
arguments on the universal condemnation of this
irrational, genocidal and moreover obsolete policy,
MINREX has presented a digital photographic
exhibition entitled “In spite of the blockade,”
accessible on the webpage
www.cubavsbloqueo.cu,
which includes 100 images by 41 photographers from
Cuba, the United States, Italy, Spain, France,
Belgium, Canada, Chile, and Mexico.
The launch of this exhibition, convened by MINREX,
the Writers and Artists Union of Cuba, the Cuba
Photographic Library and the Pablo de la Torriente
Brau Cultural Center, was attended by photographers
and Cuban and foreign graphic artists. The images
reveal the economic and commercial effects of “the
war” on the Cuban people.
At the close
of this edition, the draft resolution against the
blockade was already circulating at the United
Nations.
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