Ecuadorian vice president Lenín Moreno will be the first speaker on Monday at the UN’s meeting. Moreno will present the Yasuní-ITT environmental project which is a program of international scope that proposes the rescue of the most bio-diverse area of the Amazonia by means of a trusteeship that could maintain the reservoir of 846 million barrels of oil in the ITT (Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini) field indefinitely unexploited.

In the same session, Cuba’s foreign affairs minister Bruno Rodriguez will reiterate his country’s claim for the lifting of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the island.

On October 26, the General Assembly will vote on a Cuban resolution in rejection of the American blockade for the tenth consecutive year.

Ten days ago, the Cuban foreign minister presented in Havana the annual report to the UN under the title 'Necessity to Put an End to the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade of the US against Cuba'. 

The document denounces that Washington’s siege is the main obstacle hindering the Cuban development and has cost the island 751,363 million dollars in the last 50 years.

Last year, 187 countries voted against the blockade marking the highest vote ever recorded on the matter since it was first submitted in 1991. Only three countries voted against the resolution: United States, Israel and Palau, and two nations abstained: Marshall Islands and Micronesia.

 

Rodriguez will also insist on the demand for the freedom of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the US since 1998.

Nicaragua’s delegation will close the Latin American participation in the fourth day of general debates of the Assembly.

Other Caribbean speakers will be representatives from Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Granada, and Trinidad and Tobago.