UNGA votes to call for end to US embargo on Cuba for 29th time

The vote, which was backed overwhelmingly, was the 29th time the assembly voted to condemn the 60-year-old embargo.

The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of an annual resolution calling for the end of the nearly 60-year-old US embargo on Cuba for the 29th time, by a vote of 184 to two. US sanctions on Cuba were imposed in 1960 following the nationalisation of properties belonging to US citizens and corporations in the wake of the revolution led by Fidel Castro. Nearly two years later, US President John F Kennedy imposed an embargo. The UN assembly started voting on the Cuba-backed resolution from 1992, voting for the resolution every year, except in 2020 when no vote took place because of the pandemic.