French deputies request to reject blockade on Cuba in US Congress
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- Published: Thursday, 31 October 2019 15:29
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Paris, Oct. 31.- Deputies to the National Assembly of France sent a letter to the president of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to request support in the rejection of blockade imposed by Washington on Cuba.
The letter sent by the France-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group calls in particular the Democratic leader to provide support from the lower house of the US Congress, where her party is a majority, to a resolution that will be presented by the island in the General Assembly of the UN on the need to end the economic, commercial and financial fence.
Since 1992, the main deliberative body of the multilateral body approves forcefully - only the United States and Israel have voted against in recent years - a similar text, which this time will be introduced in the Assembly on November 6 and the next day its 193 members must speak.
The French parliamentarians reminded Pelosi that Cuba has suffered for almost six decades the impact of blockade, a responsible policy - they said - of “considerable damage to its people in all areas, mainly on Economy, Health, Education and Culture”.
In recent statements to Prensa Latina, the president of the France-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group, Francois-Michel Lambert, said the US encirclement is unacceptable and deserves international rejection.
Blockade causes difficulties to the Cuban people, said the deputy from the southern department of Bouches-du-Rhone, who also considered his extraterritorial character repudiable. (Cadenagramonte)
