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The Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly on Wednes­day has, for the 33rd con­sec­u­tive year, adopt­ed a res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the decades-long Unit­ed States em­bar­go against Cu­ba.

All 14 Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­tries vot­ed in sup­port of the res­o­lu­tion as an over­whelm­ing ma­jor­i­ty of the UN’s 193 mem­ber states urged Wash­ing­ton to lift the mea­sures, de­spite a no­tice­able shift in coun­tries choos­ing to ei­ther ab­stain or side with  Wash­ing­ton.

The res­o­lu­tion, ti­tled Ne­ces­si­ty of end­ing the eco­nom­ic, com­mer­cial and fi­nan­cial em­bar­go im­posed by the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca against Cu­ba, was adopt­ed by 165 votes in favour, sev­en against, and twelve ab­sten­tions.