The U.S. State Department's secret message sent respective twelve U.S. embassies on October 2. He instructed diplomats to lobby against the UN General Assembly resolution calling for the end of the American embargo against Cuba.
In 2023, 187 countries voted for a akin resolution. The United States, but besides Israel, were against it. Only Moldova abstained.
As reported by the Reuter Agency, the aim of the action is to importantly reduce the number of votes in favour of the resolution, although not necessarily to gain an advantage in the vote. "No votes are desirable, but besides abstaining or absenteeism will be beneficial," the Commission stressed.
As 1 of the arguments, Cuba "actively supports Russian aggression" to Ukraine. It was noted that according to the U.S. data in Ukraine on the side of Russia it fights from a 1000 to 5,000 Cubans.
"After North Korea, Cuba is the largest abroad soldier supplier to Russia," noted.
Donald Trump has since returned to the White home importantly tightened his policy towards Havana. He restored Cuba to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, and besides reimposed severe financial and travel sanctions.
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Since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine in 2022, any 20,000 Cubans have already gone to that country to fight on Russia’s side, says an independent online diary 14ymedio, citing the Ukrainian side.
According to the online newspaper, the news of specified a large number of Cuban mercenaries who were transferred to the fight in Ukraine was transmitted on September 18, during an online conference in the U.S. legislature by the press spokesperson for Ukrainian military intelligence Andriy Jusow.
He added that the Ukrainian intelligence services had already identified over 1,000 names of Cubans fighting on the side of Russia, including the identity of 40 killed during the war. 1 of them, as 14ymedio passed, is Giovani Gomez Basulto, employed before going to war at 1 of the state mining companies in Cuba.
An anti-human rights organisation, the Council for the Democratisation of Cuba (CTDC) estimates that so many people have never been transferred from this Caribbean island in specified a short time to participate in the war.
The Cuban authorities deny that people were recruited to go to war in Ukraine on the island.
