Russia hopes the U.S. administration will lift the economic embargo on Cuba, a deputy Russian envoy told the UN General Assembly.
"We believe that preservation of a trade, economic and financial blockade of Cuba on the part of the United States is counterproductive, is an anachronism and does not meet current realia," Mikhail Savostyanov said Wednesday.
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Wednesday calling on the United States to end its embargo on trade with Cuba.
The assembly voted 187-3 with two abstaining to adopt a resolution expressing global opposition to the U.S. economic blockade of the Caribbean island, which was introduced in 1961.
This is the 19th time the UN has adopted such a resolution.
The global community, including Washington''s allies Canada and the European Union, have long been opposed to the embargo. In 1996, Washington toughened the sanctions further by barring third countries'' commercial ships en route to and from the communist island from entering U.S. ports.
Under Barack Obama, the U.S. has loosened money transfer and travel restrictions on Americans with relatives in Cuba, but demanded political and economic reforms from the country as condition for lifting the embargo.
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