The UN General Assembly on Wednesday, October 28, again called for an end to the U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba, but support was the weakest in about 20 years: 130 countries voted in favor, 17 against and 25 abstained, UN News reported.

A year earlier the resolution passed with 165 votes in favor, 7 against and 12 abstentions. It was the 34th such vote; support peaked at 191 countries in 2015 and 2017, during the thaw under President Barack Obama.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz said “There is no blockade,” pointing to more than $876 million in U.S. exports to Cuba in the first eight months of 2026 and blaming the Cuban government for the island's problems. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla said the embargo had doubled infant mortality and blocked cancer medicines, and that Cuba wants “to be left in peace.”

The vote came amid a severe energy crisis in Cuba, which UN News linked to a U.S. fuel embargo. The report did not list how individual countries voted.