UN General Assembly
2013

represented here? That was a point courageously made by the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff (see A/68/PV.5). Why do we not consider the use of unpiloted planes — so-called drones — which have taken the lives of tens of thousands of innocent victims, including children and old people, in North Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia to be crimes against humanity? Why do we not impose sanctions against a Government that for more than 50 years has maintained an illegal and criminal economic blockade against the worthy Cuban people, and flouted decisions adopted by overwhelming majorities in the Assembly in favour of ending the embargo? Why do we not implement the resolutions adopted by the plenary so that the State of Palestine can be established as a peaceful, just and lasting solution to the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict? Why does the United Kingdom not agree to start negotiations with Argentina to resolve in a peaceful way demands over the Malvinas Islands? Might it perchance be because the elite of the United States and some of its allies are exceptional?