TURKEY – Prime Minister Gaston Browne has revealed that Antigua and Barbuda changed its intended position on a United Nations resolution calling for an end to the United States embargo against Cuba after Washington warned that supporting the measure could jeopardize ongoing negotiations over visa restrictions affecting Antiguan and Barbudan nationals.
Browne explained that Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United Nations had been instructed to abstain from the vote, although the country was ultimately recorded as absent.
Dominica and St. Lucia were also recorded as absent.
Jamaica, Haiti and Guyana abstained, while Trinidad and Tobago voted against the resolution. The Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Suriname voted in favor.
