The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Oct. 25 adopted aresolution on the need to end the economic, commercial and financialembargo imposed by the US against Cuba with 186 ayes, two noes andthree blank votes.
At the UNGA plenary session,permanent representative of Vietnam Ambassador Le Hoang Trung said “Vietnam shares the view of the international community that the USshould end the embargo against Cuba ”.
The policiesand measures in pursuit of the embargo against Cuba , including the“Helms-Burton Act”, go against international law and the purposes andprinciples of the United Nations Charter, hinder the development offriendly relations among nations, and violate the right of people toself-determination, to determine their political system and path ofdevelopment, said the Vietnamese diplomat.
Therestrictions in trade, finance and even travel continue to have seriousillegal extraterritorial effects on the sovereignty of other states aswell as efforts towards an equal and just global economic structure forthe prosperity of every nation, said Trung.
Representatives of members of G77 group, the Non-Aligned Movement, theAfrican Union, the Caribbean Community, MERCOSUR (the Common Market ofthe South) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation stronglycondemned the US embargo, affirming that it has violated theinternational law and gone against the UN Charter.
They demanded that the US implement the UNGA’s resolutions andimmediately put an end to its illegal embargo against Cuba .
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla valued theinternational community’s support to Havana ’s legitimate struggle todemand Washington to lift its irrational embargo unconditionally.
The US policy on Cuba has seriously violated international law and human rights, said the Cuban FM.
Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitali Churkin affirmed thatdiscrimination measures, including the embargo, are totally unacceptablein the current context and they are evidence of a rude interventioninto Cuba ’s internal affairs.
This is the 20 th consecutive year the UNGA adopted a resolution on the issue./.
At the UNGA plenary session,permanent representative of Vietnam Ambassador Le Hoang Trung said “Vietnam shares the view of the international community that the USshould end the embargo against Cuba ”.
The policiesand measures in pursuit of the embargo against Cuba , including the“Helms-Burton Act”, go against international law and the purposes andprinciples of the United Nations Charter, hinder the development offriendly relations among nations, and violate the right of people toself-determination, to determine their political system and path ofdevelopment, said the Vietnamese diplomat.
Therestrictions in trade, finance and even travel continue to have seriousillegal extraterritorial effects on the sovereignty of other states aswell as efforts towards an equal and just global economic structure forthe prosperity of every nation, said Trung.
Representatives of members of G77 group, the Non-Aligned Movement, theAfrican Union, the Caribbean Community, MERCOSUR (the Common Market ofthe South) and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation stronglycondemned the US embargo, affirming that it has violated theinternational law and gone against the UN Charter.
They demanded that the US implement the UNGA’s resolutions andimmediately put an end to its illegal embargo against Cuba .
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla valued theinternational community’s support to Havana ’s legitimate struggle todemand Washington to lift its irrational embargo unconditionally.
The US policy on Cuba has seriously violated international law and human rights, said the Cuban FM.
Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitali Churkin affirmed thatdiscrimination measures, including the embargo, are totally unacceptablein the current context and they are evidence of a rude interventioninto Cuba ’s internal affairs.
This is the 20 th consecutive year the UNGA adopted a resolution on the issue./.
