This one needs to go!
Posted on 11/02/2017 7:03:37 AM PDT by mandaladon
Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted the United Nations Wednesday in a defiant speech to the 193-member General Assembly before it adopted a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.
Haley called the long-standing debate “political theater.”
“Let’s be honest about what we really see going on here,” Haley said. “This assembly does not have the power to end the U.S. embargo. It is based in U.S. law, which only the United States Congress can change.”
The United States voted Wednesday against the U.N. resolution condemning the American trade embargo against Cuba after abstaining last year, during the administration of Barack Obama, for the first time in 25 years.
The vote served as just the latest sign of a renewed chill between Washington and Havana since a string of bizarre sonic attacks against American diplomats in Cuba. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump’s administration kicked nearly two-thirds of Cuba’s embassy personnel out of the United States after pulling many U.S. diplomats from the American embassy in Havana out of concern for their health and safety.
While the State Department has not accused Cuba of being behind the incidents, many Latin America experts and Cuban-American officials in government see no way that the government in Havana is not at least complicit. In any event, U.S. officials say Havana is responsible for the safety of foreign diplomats on its soil under the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations.
Haley said the United States is opposing the resolution in solidarity with the Cuban people “and in the hope that they will one day be free to choose their own destiny.”
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This one needs to go!
Bingo!
Pence is a good man, but I do not think he’ll be POTUS after Trump.
I’ll put my bets today on Steve Bannon, Judge Moore, or General Kelly.
“Disrespectful”? Good.
Since the reason for the embargo is the billions of dollars and property Cuba stole from US citizens and businesses and still refuses to repay, here is a compromise. Tell the UN that we will drop the embargo and deduct the $ Cuba owes from the money we send to the UN.
I believe that bell will be unrung...It’s part of history...
Not tired of you-know-what-ing!
Yeah, Pence is a smiling, empty suit.
Time for the ankle biters at the UN to move to Brussels or some other 4th world country.
That’s right, UN
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
The U.N. was intended to avoid future wars. The world has been embroiled in near constant war since the U.N. was created, and we are now involved in a 16-year conflict with seventh-century savages. Meanwhile, the U.N. keeps proving it’s irrelevant, or worse.
US out of the UN, UN out of the US.
My opinion of Nikki Haley has gone up a number of notches.
Kudos to Nikki!
“cut the amount of funding to the useless nations to, oh, say, ZERO.
Better that they give us our money back, for failure to provide promised services.
She can be MY boss!
Go, Nikki, you’re so fine!
You’re so fine, you blow my mind!
Go, Nikki!
Go, Nikki!
Then see what the UN will say...
And tell the UN to find a new country for its headquarters.
In other words, get the UN out of New York... And the US...
Good for Nikki!
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