U.S. official calls UN resolution to lift Cuba embargo ?misguided?

U.S. official calls UN resolution to lift Cuba embargo ômisguidedö    A U.S. government official called a United Nations resolution to lift the 40-year-old trade U.S. trade embargo “misguided.”
   The UN General Assembly passed the resolution Nov. 4.
   “Regardless of one’s views on the embargo, it should be clear that this is a bilateral issue between the United States and Cuba,” said Amb. Sichan Siv, U.S. representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, in a letter to the UN General Assembly president. “It is not a blockade, as the Cuban government asserts in its official pronouncements, since it does not interfere with trade with other nations.”
   Siv blamed Cuba’s economic woes on “its poor credit rating stemming from the fact that it does not pay its bills and has billions of dollars in loans in arrears.
   “It is the communist regime’s failed economic policies — not the embargo — that have impoverished Cubans and destroyed what once was one of the most advanced economies in the region,” he said.