Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§6031 Statement of policy

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 69A— - CUBAN LIBERTY AND DEMOCRATIC SOLIDARITY (LIBERTAD) › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - STRENGTHENING INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST THE CASTRO GOVERNMENT › § 6031

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress wants the President to press the U.S. ambassador at the United Nations to push the Security Council to impose a mandatory international embargo on Cuba under chapter VII, using steps like those taken about Haiti. Congress says the Castro government’s large-scale human rights abuses threaten international peace. It warns that if any independent state of the former Soviet Union tries to run nuclear facilities in Cuba or continues intelligence work in Cuba targeting the United States, that will hurt U.S. assistance to that state. Because nuclear plants and forced mass migration threaten U.S. security and resources, the President should make clear to Cuba that finishing or operating a nuclear plant or causing mass departures is unacceptable.

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Title 22, §6031

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It is the sense of the Congress that—

(1)the acts of the Castro government, including its massive, systematic, and extraordinary violations of human rights, are a threat to international peace;

(2)the President should advocate, and should instruct the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations to propose and seek within the Security Council, a mandatory international embargo against the totalitarian Cuban Government pursuant to chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, employing efforts similar to consultations conducted by United States representatives with respect to Haiti;

(3)any resumption of efforts by any independent state of the former Soviet Union to make operational any nuclear facilities in Cuba, and any continuation of intelligence activities by such a state from Cuba that are targeted at the United States and its citizens will have a detrimental impact on United States assistance to such state; and

(4)in view of the threat to the national security posed by the operation of any nuclear facility, and the Castro government’s continuing blackmail to unleash another wave of Cuban refugees fleeing from Castro’s oppression, most of whom find their way to United States shores, further depleting limited humanitarian and other resources of the United States, the President should do all in his power to make it clear to the Cuban Government that—

(A)the completion and operation of any nuclear power facility, or

(B)any further political manipulation of the desire of Cubans to escape that results in mass migration to the United States,

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22 U.S.C. § 6031

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73