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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Cuban officials called Haley’s remarks “disrespectful” and charged that she didn’t have the moral authority to criticize the island nation.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~She tells it like it is...good choice for the job...
She should display the confederate flag in her office.
Only thing better is if she did a mic drop and then walked out.
..I’m paying for this microphone...
Hey you Useless Nutcases, let Me DEFINE THIS FOR you.
KISS OUR ASS AND GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY
OUTSTANDING!!!
Ohhh, that's gonna' leave a mark....
WINNING! Now if DJT would cut the amount of funding to the useless nations to, oh, say, ZERO. Then we’d be talkin’.
Oh... that’s good. Love it.
“...the American people have spoken,” Haley said. “They have chosen a new president, and he has chosen a new ambassador to the United Nations.”
Wow! How many decades have we waited to hear this clear message given to the UN Thugs who hate America?
Ping.
Is she auditioning for Pence’s job?
I am liking her more and more.
Excellent!!!
When she was appointed, I said...What the heck...but she’s a master at speaking the truth.
You tell ‘em Nikki! No Americans ever voted for any of those maggots down at the so called U.N.
Pence is doing okay.
There might be some more openings down the road for her.
Now, she is in the right place at the right time for America.
I wish Trump would fire Jeff Feckless and install Haley at DOJ.
Not the boss of me neither.
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