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US to counter UN vote on Cuba embargo with amendments calling out human rights abuses
By Adam Shaw, Ben Evansky | Fox News
Cuban diplomats disrupt UN meeting on human rights
In this raw video, diplomats bang on desks and yell during a meeting dedicated to the plight of Cuba's political prisoners.
The Trump administration next week will counter a U.N. resolution condemning its embargo against Cuba with a series of amendments calling out the communist regime’s human rights record, Fox News has learned -- the latest example of the U.S. going on the offensive at the world body.
The U.S. on Wednesday is expected to put forward several amendments to balance the U.N. General Assembly’s annual condemnation of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. It's part of an effort to bring more supporters on board, explain why the embargo against the Cuban dictatorship exists and challenge the more than two-decade annual vote condemning the embargo.
The amendments call upon the regime to abide by human rights norms, expresses concern about freedom of expression and the plight of political prisoners. One calls on Cuba “to fully grant its citizens internationally recognized civil, political, and economic rights and freedoms, including freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, and free access to information” -- all values supposedly at the heart of the U.N., but values that some critics say the body only upholds selectively.
The U.S. policy marks an escalation from last year, when the U.S. voted against the resolution.
That was, itself, a reversal of the policy under former President Barack Obama, where the U.S. merely abstained on the U.N. resolution. It also marks the continuation of a policy by which the U.S. inserts amendments into resolutions that contradict U.S. policy.
It is unclear whether the U.S. policy will bring many on board -- where the U.S. is frequently a pariah. Last year only Israel voted with the U.S. out of the 193-member body against the Cuban resolution. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, but do carry symbolic weight, and can be used as a cudgel by U.S. opponents to condemn the U.S. over a controversial policy.
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