1.   He asked for an immediate end to the economic embargo imposed last year.

2.   In a world reluctant to use weapons or risk troops, economic embargoes are one of the few punitive alternatives.

3.   The Haitian delegation demanded the lifting of the economic embargo, but was unwilling to consider the immediate return of Aristide as president.

4.   It cited Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which authorized the use of force where economic embargo had failed.

5.   The USA was singled out for criticism over its unneighbourly actions against Cuba and urged to lift its economic embargo.

6.   Despite the cut-off in aid from the former Soviet Union and the continuing US economic embargo, the economy had performed well, he said.

7.   Also, he has consistently criticized the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba on humanitarian grounds.

8.   Americans, despite the years of bombing and the economic embargo that followed the war, somehow ended up as role models for many Vietnamese.

9.   Among the measures he wants the United States to take, he said, is the lifting of the economic embargo on Cuba.

10.   And it provided a rare example of a UN economic embargo achieving its political objective.