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	Assembly Renews Call for End to United States Embargo Against Cuba; in Tenth Successive Year, Resolution Is Adopted ...
		The majority of States were in favour of the draft resolution calling for an immediate end to the embargo against Cuba since the embargo virtually amounted to a domestic law that infringed on the rights of another sovereign nation.
		The continued imposition of an economic, commercial and financial embargo by the United States against Cuba was in contravention of the principles of international law, respect for the sovereign equality of States and freedom to engage in international trade and navigation, he continued.
		The policy goal of the United States, he said, was to foster a transition to a democratic form of government in Cuba, to foster human rights there, to help develop civil society and to provide for the economic prosperity the Cuban Government’s retrograde economic policies were denying the Cuban people.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2001/ga9979.html (5615 words)

	The Cuba Embargo
		The United States embargo against Cuba is strictly a matter of bilateral policy.
		The objective of United States policy toward Cuba is clear — to foster a rapid, peaceful transition to a democratic form of government where human rights are protected, civil society thrives, and economic prosperity is extended to all Cubans.
		The focus of the international community, as manifested in the United Nations, should be on the continuing human rights crisis in Cuba rather than on the bilateral United States efforts to encourage a peaceful transition to democracy.
	www.state.gov /p/io/rls/rm/2002/15055.htm (685 words)

	United States embargo against Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In July 1960, in response to the nationalizations and expropriations by the Castro government, the United States reduced the Cuban import quota of sugar by 700,000 tons; the Soviet Union responded by agreeing to purchase the sugar instead, and further Cuban expropriations followed.
		Nevertheless, the embargo had a limited effect on Cuba in its first few decades as the island nation was heavily subsidized by the Soviet Union and the Comecon nations which supplied Cuba with cheap oil, consumer goods, and subsidies.
		Cuba Embargo Under Growing Siege A piece by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs regarding the current state of the embargo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._embargo_against_Cuba (3489 words)

	ASSEMBLY, ACTING ON TEXT TO END UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA, URGES STATES TO REPEAL LAWS WITH ...
		Any differences between the United States and Cuba should be resolved through dialogue and peaceful negotiations on the basis of mutual respect for independence and sovereignty, and in accordance with the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law.
		The embargo was a serious threat to multilateralism, and Venezuela hoped the blockade would cease. Cubans must not suffer consequences beyond the pale of international legality.
		He said Namibia upheld the principles of sovereignty of States and non-interference in their affairs, and considered it a right of the international community to reject the embargo. His country called for the immediate and unconditional lifting of the embargo and would therefore vote in favour of the draft resolution calling for its end.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2002/ga10097.doc.htm (1151 words)

	Cuba Trade Embargo a Bilateral Issue, U.S. Ambassador Says
		United Nations -- The failed policies of the Fidel Castro’s government, not the United States trade embargo, are harming the Cuban people, U.S. Ambassador Ronald Godard told the U.N. General Assembly November 8.
		Cuba brings the issue to the General Assembly each year in an attempt to blame the United States for Cuba's economic problems, the ambassador said.
		At the end of the daylong session, the assembly voted 182 to 4 (United States, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau) with one abstention to adopt a resolution urging nations to refrain from applying laws, such as the Helms-Burton Act, that involve third countries in economic embargoes.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/cuba/cuba-051109-usia01.htm (559 words)

	Position Paper on the Cuban Embargo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The United States' trade embargo, an embargo that even includes food and medicine, is immoral and should be lifted immediately.
		The embargo is a relic of the cold war.
		United States policy in regard to Cuba has and continues to be formulated not in the best interests of the American or Cuban people, but in the interests of a small group of wealthy Cuban Americans in Miami.
	www.gpnj.org /cuba.htm (291 words)

	CubaSolidarity.com > FAQs
		For Cuba not to always be on guard against these attempts to return it to U.S. domination would mean suicide for the nation and murder for its citizens.
		Although in the early years of its revolution, Cuba was officially an atheist state, in 1992 it was declared a "secular" nation: while it affirms the right of Cubans to engage in religious practice, there is a separation between church and state.
		The United States is becoming increasingly isolated in its attempts to dictate the path and the future of its tiny neighbor to the south.
	www.cubasolidarity.com /aboutcuba/faqs.htm (2474 words)

	U.S. embargo against Cuba contributed to public health 'catastrophes' -- says Yale Medical School professor
		"The embargo against Cuba is one of the few embargoes that includes both food and medicine and it has been described as a war against public health with high human costs," Barry wrote in an article published January 18 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
		Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wrote a commentary on U.S. embargo policies in the same issue of the publication in response to both Barry1s article and a related position paper prepared by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
		The U.S. trade and aid embargo against Cuba, which began in 1961, was tolerable until the Soviet bloc crumbled — as did its aid to Cuba -- in the late 1980s, she said.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2000-01/YU-UeaC-1601100.php (365 words)

	Economic Embargo Against Cuba
		The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution on the "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." The vote is 88 for the resolution, 4 against, with 47 abstentions.
		European nations expressed objection to the embargo, citing US penalties on countries and companies doing business with Cuba as "extraterritorial," and saying that the embargo is a bilateral issue between the US and Cuba and should not be imposed on others.
		The vote is 183 in favor of the resolution (to end the embargo) and 4 against, with the nation of Micronesia abstaining.
	historyofcuba.com /history/funfacts/embargo.htm (4285 words)

	The United States-Cuba Relationship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		For nearly the next half century, Cuba, although ostensibly a democracy, was dominated by one regime after another underpinned by the military, culminating in 1940 in the notorious dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
		From the United States’ perspective of the time, Cuba’s contribution to the Cold War was as a "surrogate" for Soviet expansionism.
		The United States challenged this effort of its trading partners by stating that it would not participate in the proceeding, nor would it be bound by any decision rendered by this body.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/cuba2.html (5284 words)

	United States embargo against Cuba
		As of 2005, the embargo is still in effect, making it one of the most enduring
		The United States and Cuba have close geographic, economic and historical ties.
		Spain ceded control of Cuba to the U.S. after it was defeated in the
	latino.si.edu /virtualgallery/Sabor/Sabor-EdActivities/CubanEmbargo.htm (195 words)

	Poop! - Mister Absurd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The United States embargo against Cuba (described in Cuba as el bloqueo, Spanish for "the blockade") is an economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed on Cuba by the United States on February 7, 1962.
		Again, on November 8, 2005 the United Nations voted[1] on a resolution to end the embargo, with the margin of 184 for the resolution and 4 against.
		Whilst Cuba was a Spanish colony for 400 years until the end of the 19th century, when a Cuban revolt ousted the Spanish, Cuba had increasing economic links with the United States.
	www.misterabsurd.com /index.php?itemid=1940 (2895 words)

	ASSEMBLY RENEWS CALL FOR END TO UNITED STATES EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA
		In explaining his opposition to the draft resolution, the representative of the United States said its trade embargo against Cuba was a matter of bilateral trade policy, and not an issue the Assembly should consider. The United States chose not to trade with the Cuban Government because of its repressive policies.
		He said the international community had expressed its increasing support for ending the embargo against Cuba, and cited, among others, a ministerial declaration at Cartagena adopted by the non-aligned States. He said the unilateral measures being applied against Cuba must be removed.
		The embargo had inflicted enormous suffering on Cuban women and children in particular, which violated their human rights. It had also impeded the normal economic and trade exchanges between Cuba and many countries, and gravely encroached upon their legitimate rights and interests. It was time to bring such a phenomenon to an immediate end.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2001/ga9979.doc.htm (1431 words)

	Scoop: UN Assembly Issue Call For USA To End Cuba Embargo
		UN NYC - For the 14th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for an end to the 41-year-old commercial, economic and financial embargo by the United States against Cuba and objecting to laws and regulations compelling third countries to adhere to it.
		Ambassador Ronald Godard of the United States said his country's trade embargo against Cuba was merely bilateral, or a matter between the two countries, which should not come before the Assembly.
		However, since Cuba had raised the issue, he responded that Cuban President Fidel Castro was using it to try to blame the United States for the failures his economic policies.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0511/S00115.htm (816 words)

	Cuba Solidarity Campaign: Manchester Branch
		Cuba isn't hated by the United States government because of any supposed repression of its citizens; there are dozens of countries around the world who would deserve the focus of such anger that the U.S. reserves for Cuba, but most of them are U.S. allies.
		Cuba isn't even hated by the United States because it's a tiny area of the world where the capitalist system can't extract additional profits, because the potential amounts involved wouldn't put a dent in the bottom line of the U.S. economy.
		No, Cuba is hated by the United States, and has been the object of attempts to overthrow its government by military force or economic pressure for 46 years, because of the example it sets for the people of the world.
	www.cubasol-manch.org.uk (3620 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. For Educators. The U.S. Trade Embargo on Cuba \| PBS
		This lesson looks at current U.S. policy towards Cuba and examines the question of whether or not the economic embargo on Cuba should be lifted.
		The U.S. embargo on Cuba is still in place today, but has been eased somewhat to allow American medicines and food into Cuba.
		Since there is bound to be friction between groups in regard to their position on the embargo, the "Chief of Staff" can act as a moderator, summarizing various viewpoints, as well as helping groups to reach some sort of consensus on various issues.
	www.pbs.org /now/classroom/cuba.html (2755 words)

	UnitedStatesGovernment.net - News And Articles About The United States Government
		In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first time in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control accord.
		At Geneva in November 2001, US Undersecretary of State John Bolton stated that "the protocol is dead," at the same time accusing Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, and Syria of violating the Convention but offering no specific allegations or supporting evidence.
		President Clinton rejected the Treaty, claiming that mines were needed to protect South Korea against North Korea's "overwhelming military advantage." He stated that the US would "eventually" comply, in 2006; this was disavowed by President Bush in August 2001.
	www.unitedstatesgovernment.net (1238 words)

	ZNET Latin America Watch: Cuba
		United Nations Resolution A/55/L.7 (9 Nov. 2000) approved by 167 votes in favour to 3 against (U.S., Israel and Marshall Islands).
		How Cuba recovered from the embargo and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, with a description of current Cuban economy and its implications for the United States.
		The complaint describes, in considerable detail, forty years of U.S. acts of aggression against Cuba, and specifies, often by name, date, and particular circumstances, each person known to have been killed or grievously wounded as a direct victim of this campaign.
	www.zmag.org /LAM/lawacuba.html (1778 words)

	Cuba - SourceWatch
		Cuba's deputy foreign minister, Abelardo Moreno said March 2005, in London that Bush administration "officials are publicly speaking of regime change in Cuba.
		In a 2004 written statement to Congress Bolton stated "I believe the case for the existence of a developmental Cuba (biological weapons research and development) effort is strong".
		Two days after Mr Bush's re-election, state department spokesman Richard Boucher said: 'The United States condemns the Cuban regime's abuse of advocates of peaceful change and reform.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Cuba (907 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| UN condemns US embargo on Cuba
		The United Nations general assembly has again voted overwhelmingly against the 40-year-old United States' embargo against Cuba.
		With 173 votes to three, it was the highest vote in support of Cuba since the blockade was first debated by the general assembly in 1992.
		Despite growing calls for the blockade to be relaxed, the administration of President George W Bush has insisted that it will be retained.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/2455923.stm (118 words)

	Cubano Web Site - Cuba and Cuban Tourism, Commerce, Travel Information
		Re the Oct. 25 story Bush calls Cuba `a tropical gulag': The issue of family separation is probably the most pressing and urgent problem facing Cubans on...
		Cuba and China signed a memorandum of understanding in Havana Friday to enhance their exchanges and cooperation in environmental protection.
		This is the 14th consecutive year the United States has refused the United Nations General Assembly's resolution to call for an end of its embargo against impoverished Cubans.
	cubano.ws (801 words)

	Texas Cuba
		Once the Embargo is lifted, non-stop flights from Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas to Havana are certain to commence.
		WHEREAS, The relationship between the United States and Cuba has long been marked by tension and confrontation; further heightening this hostility is the 40-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the island nation that remains the longest-standing embargo in modern history; and
		RESOLVED, That the 77th Legislature of the State of Texas hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to consider the removal of trade, financial, and travel restrictions relating to Cuba; and, be it further
	www.texascuba.com (513 words)

	ZNET Latin America Watch: Cuba
		"To authorize increased support to the democratic opposition and other oppressed people of Cuba to help them regain their freedom and prepare themselves for a democratic future, and for other purposes." Or "S.894" in Thomas.
		» Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba [.pdf].
		Declassified documents on military plots against the Cuban government during the Cold War in William Bastone and Daniel Green's The Smoking Gun.
	www.zmag.org /LAM/zcuba.html (2767 words)

	Cuba
		Do you think it's time for the United States to end its embargo and move toward normal diplomatic and trade relations, or do you think continued embargo is the best way to treat Cuba?"
		"As you may know, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba after it became a communist country under Fidel Castro in 1959.
		The U.S. also imposed travel restrictions and a trade embargo, which means U.S. companies cannot do business in Cuba and Cuban companies cannot do business here.
	www.pollingreport.com /cuba.htm (660 words)

	Russian Duma condemns Cuba embargo \| Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		RUSSIAN lawmakers unanimously condemned a United States trade embargo against Cuba overnight as "a flagrant violation of human rights" and called for international help to end the blockade.
		All 432 members present in the State Duma, Russia's lower house, voted in favour of the resolution which urged other world parliaments to join Moscow in condemning the sanctions and in exerting pressure on Washington.
		Raul Castro welcomed Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Fradov to Cuba in September, the first visit by a Russian leader in over 15 years and during which a series of mostly economic agreements were signed.
	www.news.com.au /mercury/story/0,22884,20698792-5005940,00.html (470 words)

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