|
|
CONCLUSIONS
-
The intensification of the policy of blockade and the growing escalation
of U.S. aggression towards the Cuban people -- including the threat of
an armed invasion -- irrefutably demonstrate the refusal of the government
of President George W. Bush to respect the will of the overwhelming majority
of the international community, expressed in successive resolutions of
the United Nations General Assembly.
- The maintenance and reinforcement of the illegal policy of blockade
against Cuba serve to prove once again the current Republican administration's
contempt for international law and multilateralism.
- Not a single sector within the economic and social activities of the
Cuban people has been spared the destructive and destabilizing effect
of the web of actions and measures encompassed by the United States' policy
of blockade. Preliminary studies have shown that the total amount of economic
losses incurred by Cuba during the more than four decades that the blockade
has been in force could already surpass 72 billion dollars.
- The extraterritorial application of the U.S. government's blockade against
Cuba, institutionalized and systematized through the Torricelli and Helms-Burton
Acts, in addition to violating international law, has provoked serious
additional damages to the national economy over the last decade.
- The current U.S. administration's non-objection to sales of some foodstuffs
to Cuba should not be interpreted as a relaxation of the policy of blockade.
On the contrary, the numerous obstacles and strict restrictions applied
to these sales demonstrate the depth and all-encompassing scope of this
illegal policy of unilateral sanctions.
- Spurious motives of domination have deprived the peoples of Cuba and
the United States of their rights to mutually beneficial exchange in the
academic, scientific, cultural, tourism and sporting sectors. The new
regulations on such exchanges issued in March of this year further increase
the prohibitions and limitations.
- Cuba has the right and the duty to continue to denounce the damages
and violations that the policy of blockade has imposed on its people and
on international law. At the same time, Cuba reiterates its determination
to defend above all, with the power of the truth and of ideas -- its people's
full enjoyment of the right to sovereignly establish its own political,
economic and social system.
Neither threats nor aggressions will bend the will of the Cuban people
to defend the profound process of revolutionary transformations that have
brought it so much dignity and so many benefits in these last 44 years.
- For all of the above, Cuba calls upon the international community once
again to unequivocally express its support for an end to the economic,
commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America
against Cuba. In this way, it will be defending the ideal of a better
world, where justice and the rule of law prevail for everyone equally.
Top
|
Download
Report (.doc)