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  1. Mar 2022
    1. TITLE: West does not understand how Russia funciton

      CONTENT: Former head of the CNN bureaue in Moscow summarises the following misunderstandings about Russia and current crisis:

      • lack of property rights and legal certainty makes the political power the main power in Russian society;
      • oligarhs are much less important for Russia than it looks form outside.
      • siloviki hold the most of power in Russia. They are part of Putin's inner circle originating from KGB and Military. They keep their money in Russia.

      Pressure on Putin's regime can work via sanctions

      • on oil as the main source of wealth in Russia;
      • on high tech which is used by Russian military industry.

      These sanctions can become effective only with support of China and Indi.

      Source: New York Times

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  2. Sep 2021
    1. imor-Lestecontinuestobegreatlyconcernedwiththeprolongedeconomic,commercialandfinancialembargothathasbeenimposedagainstCubaformorethansixdecadesandhascausedharshimpactinthelivesoftheCubanpeopleandthedevelopmentofthecountry,includingtheeffortsofCubaineffectivelycopingwiththeCOVID-19pandemic.Inthissense,Timor-Lestefirmlysupportstheliftingoftheembargoandopposesanyextra-territorialmeasures
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    1. The DPRK delegation avails itself of this opportunity to extend its full support and encouragement to the Cuban government and people who continue to move forward holding aloft the bannerof socialism in the face of the U.S. moves to impose illegal sanctions and blockade and to undermine Cuba from within.
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    1. The unjust designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism along withthe economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed against that country, undermine its ability to cope with the pervasive impacts of the pandemic and its potential to achieve sustainable development.
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    1. Уже сегодня в мире голодаетоколо одного миллиардачеловек, а из-за недальновидности кучки государств, которые применяют односторонние экономические ограничения против целых секторов экономики, занятых в продовольствии, без еды могут остаться еще многие сотни миллионовлюдей.Практика произвольных финансовых и экономических санкций в качестве инструмента политического давления должна быть навсегда искоренена.И это также должно быть однойиз сфер деятельности ООН

      Already today, about one billion people are starving in the world, and the short-sightedness of a handful of states that apply unilateral economic restrictions against entire sectors of the economy engaged in food may leave many hundreds of millions of people without food. The practice of arbitrary financial and economic sanctions as a tool of political pressure must be eradicated forever, and it must also be one of the areas of UN activity.

    2. применение односторонних ограничений грубейшим образом нарушает международное право и наносит непоправимый вред всей системе международных отношений, наращивает конфликтный потенциал и враждебность в межгосударственных отношениях.Беларусь выражает солидарность с другими странами, которые подверглись гнету санкционной политики. Мы поддерживаембратский народ Кубы,который уже столько лет находится в несправедливой экономической блокаде по волюнтаристской воле одного государства.

      ... the use of unilateral restrictions grossly violates international law and causes irreparable harm to the entire system of international relations, increases the potential for conflict and hostility in interstate relations. Belarus expresses solidarity with other countries that have been subjected to the yoke of the sanctions policy. We support the brotherly nation of Cuba, who have been in an unjust economic blockade for so many years by the voluntarist will of one state.

    3. Непрекращающиеся попытки отдельных стран навязать суверенным государствам искусственные шаблоны социального и экономического развития, варварская санкционная политика в отношении неугодных правительств, экономический терроризм и возврат мира к элементам блокового противостояния –все это имеет мало общего со справедливым и гармоничным мироустройством, к которому все мы стремимсяуже столько десятилетий.

      The incessant attempts of individual countries to impose artificial templates of social and economic development on sovereign states, barbaric sanctions policy against unwanted governments, economic terrorism and the return of the world to elements of bloc confrontation - all this has little to do with a just and harmonious world order, to which we all have been striving for so many decades.

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    1. If COVID-19 would claim one life in the absence of so-called sanctions, it would claim so many more when they are in place. As the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercivemeasures on the enjoyment of human rights said, “Sanctions are bringing suffering and death in countries like Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen”. And as noted by a group of independent UN human rights experts, “Sanctions that were imposed in the name of delivering human rights are in fact killing people and depriving them of fundamental rights, including the rights to health, to food and to life itself”.End of quote

      grave impact of unilateral sanctions across the globe.

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    1. in the same vein of a rules-based order the u.s preserves the obsolete obsolete trade embargo against cuba and strives to impose its will on the peoples of venezuela and nicaragua in flagon violation of the charter-based principles of non-interference into internal affairs of sovereign states
    2. on the other hand when the right to self-determination runs counter to the west's geopolitical interests as it did in the case of the people of crimea's expression of free will at the 2014 referendum on the peninsula's reunification with russia it forgets all about it and in and introduces illegitimate sanctions for the exercise of this right the reason is simple the crimeans were saving themselves from the ultra-radicalswho were behind the coup in ukraine supported by the west which means that since the good guys came to power in kiev they are accorded by western rules to be protected and escalated
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    1. Over the past three decades, the U.N. General Assembly has consistently voted against unilateral coercive measures through economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba but to no avail.
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    1. We reject the attempts to expand NATO’s presence up to the Russian borders; the interference in Russia’s affairs with regard to its sovereignty and the imposition of unilateral and unjust sanctions against that country.
    2. We strongly condemn the unilateral and unjust sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
    3. We condemn the unilateral coercive measures imposed against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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    1. En ese sentido, nuestro país ha sabido sobreponerse y enfrentar todas estas circunstancias. Por eso creemos necesario difundir en la Secretaría General de Naciones Unidas, desde la presidencia de esta Asamblea General anual y a todo nivel de embajadasrepresentativas y de gobiernos, los resultados oficiales del informe de la Relatora Especial para Sanciones de la Organización de Naciones Unidas, quien hizo una visitaaVenezuela este año, durante el transcurso de siete días, ylevantó un informe muy objetivo,muy crudo y realista de éstas sanciones criminales y la recomendación para que éstas sanciones criminales sean levantadas de inmediato y se respete el derecho internacional,el derecho internacional humanitario;se respete el derecho de Venezuela a la libertad y a la garantía económica, comercial, financiera y al ejercicio pleno de los derechos como país soberano pertenecientes a la Organización de Naciones Unidas.
    2. Aprovechola oportunidad para ratificar nuestra solidaridad y nuestro apoyo a la República de Cuba,al pueblo de Cuba en la exigencia apoyada durante 27 oportunidades por votación mayoritaria de Naciones Unidas,a que se levante de inmediato todas las medidas de bloqueo comercial y económico contra la República de Cuba,contra el pueblo de Cuba.Venezuela alza su voz también con justicia y por humanidad por Cuba,una República y un pueblo heroico.
    3. noble, pacífico y democrático como el pueblo de Venezuela.Y en muchas oportunidades hemos llevado la denuncia ante organismos,ante la sede de varios organismos,y hoy la volvemos a entregar ante la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas en Nueva York. En esta oportunidad de la Asamblea General anual del mes de septiembre de este año 2021,Venezuela denuncia una campaña feroz y denuncia una agresión permanente y sistemática a través de sanciones económicas, financieras, petroleras, crueles,a través de una persecución contra el derecho a la libertad económica,contra los derechos económicos y las garantías económicas que deben gozar todos los pueblos del mundo. Una arremetida feroz contrael derecho a comprar lo que necesita nuestro país y contrael derecho a vender lo que nuestro país produce,especialmente las grandes riquezas petroleras y mineras que Venezuela tiene en su tierra y que durante décadas ha explotado. Se persigue las cuentas financieras,se nos ha secuestrado y bloqueado el oro de las reservas internacionales legales del Banco Central de Venezuela en Londres,se nos ha secuestrado y bloqueado miles de millones de dólares en cuentas bancarias enlos Estados Unidos,en Europa y más allá.Se lesimpide a las empresas venezolanas de petróleo,de minería,comerciar sus productos y abrir cuentas bancarias en el mundo para pagar,para cobrar y para hacer las transacciones comerciales de manera libre, como contempla el derecho internacional. Esuna persecución financiera, monetaria, comercial, económica, energética, sistemática, cruel y criminal. YVenezuela alza su voz para denunciarla ante los pueblos del mundo

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    4. enezuelahallevado a esta Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas en múltiples ocasiones, y ante los organismos del Sistema de Naciones Unidas,hemos llevado en múltiples ocasiones la denuncia de la arremetida feroz,de la campaña feroz contra nuestro país que se desata desde las élites que han gobernado los Estados Unidos;que se desata inclusive con complicidad desde las élites que dirigen organismos en Europa y en otros lugares. Han querido instrumentalizar los organismos internacionales,del derecho internacional parajustificar la campaña feroz y los ataques criminales contra un pueblo

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