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Cuba's foreign policy has been fluid throughout history depending on world events and other variables, including relations with the United States.Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner, Cuba became increasingly isolated in the late 1980s and early 1990s after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, but Cuba opened up more with the rest of the world again ...
The rebel group that led the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad - Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) - has long been under United Nations sanctions, which the U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir ...
Calls on all the parties to allow humanitarian agencies rapid, safe and unhindered access throughout Syria. 2401: 24 February 2018 Unanimous Calls for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria for 30 days starting from 24 February 2018. 2449: 13 December 2018 Unanimous Renewing the authorisation for cross-border and cross-line humanitarian access to ...
Protests against military action in Syria also occurred throughout the United Kingdom in April 2018, from towns and cities such as Bristol, Exeter, Swansea and Milton Keynes. [271] This was following proposed further airstrikes in Syria alongside the United States against Syrian government forces for allegedly possessing chemical weapons. [272]
The United States, Britain, the European Union and others imposed tough sanctions on Syria after a crackdown by Assad on pro-democracy protests in 2011 spiraled into civil war.
Syria voted at the United Nations General Assembly to accredit the NTC as representative of Libya on 16 September 2011. [172] [173] On 10 October 2011, Libya became the first country to recognise the Syrian National Council as "the sole legitimate government in Syria".
The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly called on the United States to end its decades-long sanctions regime on Cuba, as the communist-run Caribbean island nation suffers its worst ...
Cuba's largest foreign interventions were in Angola in support of the MPLA and in Ethiopia in support of Mengistu Haile Mariam during the Ogaden War. [3] Cuba also intervened militarily in the Arab world including in Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, [5] and in support of Syria during the October 1973 War.