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World condemns Washington after Trump renews defence of Cuba embargo
DEVELOPING nations lined up to condemn the US blockade of Cuba at the UN yesterday after Donald Trump renewed decades-long hostility towards the socialist island.
Latin American and Caribbean regional bloc Celac, Asia’s Asean, the Group of 77 and African nations all urged an end to the unilateral embargo in place for more than 50 years, the Cuban News Agency reported.
The US State Department said on Tuesday that it would reverse last year’s decision by the Obama government to abstain in the vote after 24 years.
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