Member's statement: Cuba: US Blockade
Member's statement by Mr Declan Kearney on .
- MLA
- Mr Declan Kearney
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 15 September 2026
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- Cuba: US Blockade
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5705490
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Text
The nearly 70-year US blockade against the Republic of Cuba is a collective punishment against the people of Cuba. It has been a silent genocide, illegally carried out, that is morally wrong and politically indefensible. The intention of the illegal US blockade is clear: to starve the Cuban people into submission and undermine the Republic of Cuba. Cuba poses no military threat to the US or any other nation. On the contrary, it is internationally renowned for its selfless commitment to global humanitarianism and medical internationalism. The economic, financial and commercial embargoes on Cuba have caused, and are causing, suffering for millions of Cuban people. They are being denied access to the basic resources of life. Water, electricity, healthcare and other essential services are being decimated because of serious fuel shortages. Since early 2026, the US Administration has tightened the blockade with a complete embargo against Cuba's energy and finance sectors, causing a deep humanitarian crisis. The US Administration is now intimidating the wider international community with threats of tariffs against countries that continue to supply oil to Cuba. The targeted embargo on all oil imports into the country is exacerbating the human suffering. That US aggression is a clear violation of the United Nations charter, and successive resolutions adopted by the United Nations call for the blockade to end. International solidarity with Cuba is now urgently required. At the forthcoming UN General Assembly in October, the voice of the international community will again reassert that principled moral position. The US should return to multilateralism and diplomacy. Humanitarian aid must now be allowed to enter Cuba unhindered and not blocked from any quarter or source.
275 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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