THE Cuban Foreign Ministry has welcomed a resolution passed overwhelming by the Organisation of American States that questions the legality of a US law aiming to block foreign investment in Cuba.
At a press conference late on, Tuesday, the foreign ministry
"spokesman, Mr Miguel Alfonso said the resolution passed at the OAS general assembly in Panama City was "a dignified reaction" to the US Helms Burton law enacted in March.
The law opens the door for US nationals to sue foreign firms for compensation from the use of their former property, nationalised and resold by President Fidel Castro's government. In addition, executives of firms that do business with Cuba, and their relatives, could be barred from entering the United States.
The US cast the sole opposing vote in Panama to the OAS resolution, considered an unprecedented blow to Washington. Mr Alfonso added that the OAS was "no longer the same" in reference to the US's historical dominance of, the Washington based organisation.
The vote "shows the level of isolation of the United States in its blockade on the island and shows that the empire has limits that it is beginning to discover, Mr Alfonso said.
The OAS resolution criticised the US law as a "unilateral" action with "extra territorial effects" one third countries.
The resolution also asks an inter American panel of jurists to assess whether the Helms Burton law is consistent with international law. Cuba has not been represented at OAS sessions since it was suspended in 1962 for not holding what the organisation deems democratic elections.
