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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (AFP) -- For the eighth consecutive year, the UN General Assembly voted by an overwhelming majority on Tuesday to demand an end to the US economic embargo against communist-ruled Cuba.
The Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution calling for an end to the 37-year-old economic blockade with, 155 votes in favour and eight abstentions.
As in 1998, only Israel sided with the United States in voting against the resolution.
The resolution, which underscores the isolation of the United States on the Cuban embargo issue, has been voted annually since 1992.
The president of the Cuban people's assembly, Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, told the Assembly that the purpose of the embargo, imposed in 1962, was "genocide, purely and simply".
The aim of the United States since the overthrow of the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 had been "to destroy the Cuban people," he said.
Alarcon accused Washington of "a dishonest campaign aimed at creating confusion" and of arrogance towards the United Nations.