UN / CUBA EMBARGO VOTE

The United Nations General Assembly has for the 33rd consecutive year adopted a resolution calling for an end to the decades-long United States embargo against Cuba. UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:02:41
• Production Date: 29 October 2025
• Asset Language: English; Spanish
• Personal Subject: BRUNO EDUARDO RODRÍGUEZ PARRILLA; ANNALENA BAERBOCK
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: EMBARGO; ECONOMICS; HUMAN RIGHTS; AGGRESSION; POLITICAL AFFAIRS
• Geographic Subject: CUBA; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 3484772
• Parent Id: 3484772
• Alternate Title: unifeed251029a

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STORY: UN / CUBA EMBARGO VOTE
TRT: 2:41
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 29 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters

29 OCTOBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. Wide shot, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla walks up to General Assembly rostrum
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“I speak on behalf of a people who right now - with scarce resources and practically only by sheer will, unity and solidarity – is coping with a monstrous hurricane.”
5. Wide shot, Rodríguez Parrilla at the rostrum
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“Over the last few weeks, there has been a brutal and unprecedented deployment of pressure, intimidation, and toxicity by the State Department at a planetary level to force sovereign states to change their vote on the resolution that we will adopt today. They have resorted to all their weapons and tricks, especially coercion.”
7. Wide shot, Rodríguez Parrilla at the rostrum
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cuba:
“The strategic aim of the blockade is to provoke a social breakdown that would lead to the breakdown of constitutional order that Cubans have decided to freely form in various referenda.”
9. Wide shot, Rodríguez Parrilla walks away
10. Various shots, voting board
11. UPSOUND (English) Annalena Baerbock, resident, General Assembly:
“The result of the vote is as follows. In favour, 165; against, seven; abstentions 12. Draft resolution A/80/L.6 is adopted.”
12. Wide shot, General Assembly
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Bartos, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“The United States will not shrink from speaking truth about the abuses of the Cuban regime. Its failings are the cause of its economic dysfunction, and it continues to collaborate with enemies and adversaries of the United States against our interests, including actively supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine. The United States government is satisfied to see so many countries send the regime a message that the international community will no longer tolerate its lies; its continual plea for international aid, while it refuses to make any political, economic or social reforms; its support for rogue states and international terrorists, and most of all, its repression of the Cuban people.”
14. Wide shot, General Assembly

Storyline

The United Nations General Assembly today (29 Oct) has for the 33rd consecutive year adopted a resolution calling for an end to the decades-long United States embargo against Cuba.

An overwhelming majority of the UN’s 193 Member States once again urged Washington to lift the measures – despite a noticeable shift in countries choosing to either abstain or side with the US.

Speaking before the vote, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla said he was speaking “on behalf of a people who right now - with scarce resources and practically only by sheer will, unity and solidarity – is coping with a monstrous hurricane.”

Hurricane caused widespread in Cuba overnight after pummelling Jamaica as a category 5 hurricane.

Rodriguez Parrilla told the General Assembly that “over the last few weeks, there has been a brutal and unprecedented deployment of pressure, intimidation, and toxicity” by the United States State Department, “to force sovereign states to change their vote” on the resolution titled Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.

He said, “they have resorted to all their weapons and tricks, especially coercion.”

The Cuban official said, “the strategic aim of the blockade is to provoke a social breakdown that would lead to the breakdown of constitutional order that Cubans have decided to freely form in various referenda.”

The resolution –– was adopted by 165 votes in favour, seven against, and twelve abstentions.

Those voting against this year’s resolution were the US, Israel, Argentina, Hungary, Paraguay, North Macedonia, and Ukraine.

The twelve abstentions came from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Czechia, Ecuador, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Moldova and Romania.

United States Ambassador Jeffrey Bartos, speaking after the vote, said, “the United States will not shrink from speaking truth about the abuses of the Cuban regime. Its failings are the cause of its economic dysfunction, and it continues to collaborate with enemies and adversaries of the United States against our interests, including actively supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine.”

Bartos said, “the United States government is satisfied to see so many countries send the regime a message that the international community will no longer tolerate its lies; its continual plea for international aid, while it refuses to make any political, economic or social reforms; its support for rogue states and international terrorists, and most of all, its repression of the Cuban people.”

While the resolution remains non-binding, its passage once again signals the international community’s disapproval of unilateral coercive measures with extraterritorial effects.