T&T votes with US against Cuba embargo resolution

Trinidad and To­ba­go has vot­ed along­side the Unit­ed States against a Unit­ed Na­tions res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to the decades-long Amer­i­can em­bar­go on Cu­ba, mark­ing a de­par­ture from the coun­try’s long­stand­ing for­eign pol­i­cy po­si­tion.

For the first time since the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly (UN­GA) be­gan vot­ing on the is­sue in 1992, T&T op­posed the res­o­lu­tion, which calls for an end to the eco­nom­ic, com­mer­cial and fi­nan­cial em­bar­go im­posed by the Unit­ed States against Cu­ba.

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De­spite T&T’s op­po­si­tion, the res­o­lu­tion was over­whelm­ing­ly adopt­ed to­day, with 130 coun­tries vot­ing in favour, 17 against and 25 ab­stain­ing.