Nigeria Thursday at the UN General Assembly joined 186 other countries to vote against the United States (US) economic and trade embargo on Cuba.
During the General Assembly on Thursday, 187 of 190 member states voted against the embargo that has been in place since 1960. Only the US and Israel voted for the embargo to continue while Ukraine refrained from voting. Somalia, Venezuela and Moldova did not vote. All the African countries that voted supported the removal of the embargo.
The draft resolution is titled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”
