{"id":14210,"date":"2011-10-26T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14210"},"modified":"2011-10-26T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:05:58","slug":"un-renews-call-for-end-to-us-embargo-against-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/un-renews-call-for-end-to-us-embargo-against-cuba","title":{"rendered":"UN Calls For U.S. To End Cuba Embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14216\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"cuba-delegation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cuba-delegation-e1319632219856-250x173.jpg\" alt=\"Cuban Delegation at UN\" width=\"250\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cuba-delegation-e1319632219856-250x173.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cuba-delegation-e1319632219856-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cuba-delegation-e1319632219856.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday renewed its call, for the  20th consecutive year, for an end to the economic, commercial and  financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba for the past  half century.<\/p>\n<p>In a resolution adopted by 186 votes in favour to two against (Israel  and the US) and three abstentions (Federated States of Micronesia,  Marshall Islands and Palau), the Assembly reiterated its call to all  states to refrain from promulgating and applying laws and measures not  conforming with their obligations to reaffirm freedom of trade and  navigation.<\/p>\n<p>It also urged them to repeal or invalidate such laws and requested the  secretary-general to report on the implementation of the resolution at  the Assembly\u2019s next session, which begins in September 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday renewed its call, for the 20th consecutive year, for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba for the past half century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,29,113],"class_list":["post-14210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cuba","tag-economy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}