The historic gesture came one day before the US leader was scheduled to meet with Cuban President Raúl Castro in New York to discuss bilateral relations.
“Change won’t come overnight to Cuba, but I’m confident that openness, not coercion, will support the reforms and better the life the Cuban people deserve.”It wasn’t the first time that Obama had asked US lawmakers to lift the embargo since the US and Cuba began to work on normalizing diplomatic relations.
US President Barack Obama on Monday walked up to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly and asked Congress to lift the 55-year economic embargo against Cuba as the two countries continue to thaw their diplomatic relations.
But it was the first time that a US president had called for the end of the embargo and spoke about US policy toward Cuba at a General Assembly meeting.
The Cuban leader said that the only way to have normal relations with the United States is by lifting the embargo, which was introduced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960.
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