Cuba postpones UN resolution against U.S. trade embargo due to pandemic


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Jul 2020

HAVANA, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Cuba on Wednesday said it will postpone until next year the draft resolution it annually submits to the United Nations General Assembly, condemning the U.S. trade embargo against the island.

Cuba's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Anayansi Rodriguez told a press conference: "this decision is solely due to the ... COVID-19 pandemic and its direct impact on the work at UN headquarters" in New York.

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