Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said on November 9 that the result of a United Nations vote celebrated on the same day was a great victory for the island over a Cuban project to lift the US embargo against Cuba.

According to reports reaching here, in the voting over the resolution project, Cuba has, since 1992, received on an annual basis in the UN General Assembly 155 votes in favor, while there have been only two against (US and Israel), and eight abstentions.

Roque said on the National Radio News that Cuba has "massive backing from the international community for the Cuban resolution for the lifting of the blockade maintained against the island by the US government for the last 40 years."

He confirmed that in spite of the fact that the United States tried everything to guarantee that Cuba would not gain another victory this year, the overwhelming part of the international community came out against the policy of the genocidal blockade by Washington.

He also indicated that the result of the vote constitutes a crushing defeat for the United States, which must look on with shame as the international community, once again backs the Cuban resolution and rejects the political blockade.

Ricardo Alarcan, president of the National Assembly of Popular Power in Cuba, spoke Tuesday in the UN General Assembly, to reiterate the position of the Cuban government on this issue.