UN General Assembly
2014

condemner of State terrorism and a collaborator in the fight against State terrorism. Meanwhile, other actors nakedly support and lavishly fund the most despicable terrorist groups, without so much as a hint of public reproach. It is hard to imagine why the United States, a firm, honourable and unquestioned global leader in the fight against terrorism, and the target of the most heinous attacks, would want to distract itself, or its allies, from the fight at hand by maintaining its unfounded characterization of Cuba. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines reiterates the call of the overwhelming majority of States for an immediate end to the illegal economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba. The external projection of political self-interest is not a sovereign exercise, but a retrograde and anachronistic attack on the very principles that undergird the Organization. The United States is a far greater nation than this petty, punitive and illegal embargo suggests. We encourage it to demonstrate the courage to cast aside this Cold War relic. We are one month removed from the disastrous