Nikki Haley tells United Nations: You're not the boss of U.S.

WASHINGTON

Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted the United Nations Wednesday in a defiant speech to the 193-member General Assembly before it adopted a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba.

Haley called the long-standing debate “political theater.”

“Let’s be honest about what we really see going on here,” Haley said. “This assembly does not have the power to end the U.S. embargo. It is based in U.S. law, which only the United States Congress can change.”

The United States voted Wednesday against the U.N. resolution condemning the American trade embargo against Cuba after abstaining last year, during the administration of Barack Obama, for the first time in 25 years.
The vote served as just the latest sign of a renewed chill between Washington and Havana since a string of bizarre sonic attacks against American diplomats in Cuba. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump’s administration kicked nearly two-thirds of Cuba’s embassy personnel out of the United States after pulling many U.S. diplomats from the American embassy in Havana out of concern for their health and safety.

While the State Department has not accused Cuba of being behind the incidents, many Latin America experts and Cuban-American officials in government see no way that the government in Havana is not at least complicit. In any event, U.S. officials say Havana is responsible for the safety of foreign diplomats on its soil under the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations.

Haley said the United States is opposing the resolution in solidarity with the Cuban people “and in the hope that they will one day be free to choose their own destiny.”

“Each year, this Assembly’s time is wasted considering this resolution,” Haley told the assembly. “And the United States is subjected to all manner of ridiculous claims – anything to deflect attention from the regime that is actually responsible for the suffering of the Cuban people.”

Cuban officials called Haley’s remarks “disrespectful” and charged that she didn’t have the moral authority to criticize the island nation.

She also said she wanted to clear up any questions about why the United States would change its vote on the same resolution just a year later. She acknowledged some will not understand how the United States “could passively accept this resolution last year and energetically oppose it this year.”

“To those who are confused as to where the United States stands, let me be clear: as is their right under our Constitution, the American people have spoken,” Haley said. “They have chosen a new president, and he has chosen a new ambassador to the United Nations.”

are you a trump voter?

The Cuban embargo is a ridicules hold-over from the cold war.

as long as a fascist leader is in charge of Cuba, the embargo stays..not real hard...

and that has what to do with the topic?

The United nations is a joke!
As with everything.
they are good at resolutions and writing a strong letter but take for ever to follow it up!
Wmd's in Iraq for instance. how long did they drag that out?
Gave him Time to move them probably to Iran imo.
They are job's worths, they should do what they are there for!
While they are taking time over lavish dinners talking about stuff they should be in there doing something.
Same as Bosnia, oh, write them a letter, we'll have a meeting in a couple of weeks then write another letter then we'll come up with another resolution with a big number, mean while that will give them time to do a bit of ethnic cleansing!
They wouldn't get involved in the Falklands conflict! Only the us tried, can't remember the guy's name now but they complained about that. The French were still trying to supply Argentina with exorset missiles until thatcher told the French if you send anything out of France we'll sink it!
Stay out of it and concentrate on countries that rape and murder!

You have that right
UN to name Robert Mugabe as their "Goodwill Ambassador".

I KNOW, WHAT FU## ING clown come up with that one!
He's probably killed more people than the nazis did!
I sometimes wonder what planet these officials come from. Certainly isn't ours!

The only thing it's good for is a good laugh now and then.
And an expensive one at that.

Let's ask the thousands who were murdered by the Castro's if
it's ridiculous.

The un is like the European union, full of bs and ruled by people who think they can rule the world,
Germany must be rubbing there hands and the millions who died must be turning in there graves!

A lot of silly fuss over nothing new, I would say. The United Nations has NEVER had significant power over ANY member nations. The posturing about the Cuban embargo is just that.

Oh, and minor point, mightymoe, you are the first and only person I have heard claim that Cuba has a Fascist government. But then, since even the originators of fascism mixed it up with socialism and communism, I suppose it's hard to tell too much difference between them. The German version of "fascism" was called Nationalist Socialism, after all.

Castro is hardly on a par with Genralisimo Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini,(the original Fascist), who at least made the trains run on time.

so how many people deaths does it take to be considered a fascist?

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Ah, I see the problem. You think that what makes something fascism is how many people get killed.

Well, actually, fascism doesn't have any more to do with killing people than capitalism and democracy does.

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Fascism | Definition of Fascism by Merriam-Webster
Define fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race … —