The senators called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union and other international parliamentary organisations to demand an immediate implementation of the relevant UN General Assembly resolutions.
The 577th meeting of the Federation Council adopted a Statement on the Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Enforced by the United States against the Republic of Cuba.
The document was presented by Chair of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin.
“The overwhelming majority of UN member states supports the Cuban peoples’ just demand for ending the US policy of sanctions,” the senator said. He recalled that the UN General Assembly had voted for the relevant resolutions since 1992. This year’s resolution will be discussed in late October.
The statement says that the US embargo against Cuba was a gross violation of the principles and norms of international law, including those set forth in the UN Charter.
The Federation Council has called for repealing the Helms-Burton Act adopted in the United States on 12 March 1996, which has a negative impact on the sovereign right of the Cuban people and their foreign partners to the free and mutually beneficial development of trade, economic and financial ties.
The senators demanded the immediate removal of the Republic of Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, on which it was illegally and arbitrarily placed by the US Department of State.
The Federation Council’s statement on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo enforced by the United States against the Republic of Cuba
The Senators spoke out in favour of ending the economic, trade and financial embargo imposed by the United States against the Republic of Cuba, and called on the Inter-Parliamentary Union and other international parliamentary organisations, as well as the parliaments of other countries to demand an immediate implementation of the relevant UN General Assembly resolutions.
The statement will be sent to the UN, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, the Latin American Parliament, the Mercosur Parliament, the Central American Parliament, the African Parliamentary Union, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, and the parliaments of foreign states.