Call to end embargo
NZPA-AP New York The United Nations General Assembly voted 91-6 on Tuesday to call for the lifting of the United States trade embargo against'Nicaragua. Seven Western allies, including New Zealand and Australia, ignored a United States appeal to vote against the resolution. Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland and Spain also supported it. The United States was joined by Gambia, Grenada, Israel, St Christopher and
Nevis, and Sierra Leone in opposing the resolution. There were 49 abstentions, including most other Western European countries. Without mentioning the United States by name, the resolution said the assembly “regrets the recent trade embargo and other measures imposed against Nicaragua” and requests that they be immediately revoked. The Nicaraguan Ambassador, Mr Javier Chamorro Mora, denounced the trade embargo as “unjust, illegal
and absurd”. He said he hoped the assembly resolution “will prompt the Government of the United States to think of the serious mistake not only of this embargo but also the serious mistake of the overallpolicy towards Nicaragua — a policy of military and economic aggression.” The United States Ambassador, Lieutenant-General Vernon Walters, dismissed the resolution as “grossly unbalanced and potentially damaging to the Central American peace conference.”
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