Bolivia, Ghana, Micronesia and Nauru have joined their voices to the call for the lifting of the U.S. blockade on Cuba, during the annual debate of the UN General Assembly, which enters its third day today.
 
Bolivian President, Evo Morales, expressed the strong rejection of his country to the unilateral coercive measures imposed by Washington on the island for more than 50 years.
 
'It is not enough to restore relations, the United States should compensate Cuba for the economic damage suffered and restore the territory of Guantanamo to the territorial sovereignty of the Cuban people,' he said yesterday in the forum.
 
For his part, Ghana's President, John Dramani Mahama, welcomed the rapprochement between Washington and Havana and expressed his expectations that this leads to the end of the economic, commercial and financial siege.
 
'It is time to move forward on these steps and completely lift the blockade on Cuba, I have the hope that this progress is reached before the Obama administration completes its mandate,' he said, followed by applauses at the General Assembly.
 
Nauru's President, Baron Divavesi Waqa, and Micronesia's Peter Christian, also argued yesterday at the plenary session of the 193 UN country members for the cessation of the current blockade on the Caribbean island.
 
Guinea-Bissau's President, Jose Mario Vaz, welcomed the new bilateral stage and agreed on the wishes expressed in the forum by other leaders that lead to better ties.
 
'We hope that the normalization of the bilateral relations bring a rapprochement for these two friends of Guinea,' he said.
 
On Monday, Sep. 19, Mexico, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guyana and Brazil defended the end of the blockade, during the first session of the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly.