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China Objects US Blockade of Cuba

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China on Tuesday said it objects to economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba and support the efforts of the Cuban government and people to safeguard their national independence and state sovereignty.

"It is our hope that the US government joins the prevailing trend to replace confrontation with dialogue, to replace embargo and other sanctions with contacts and exchanges, and to take concrete measures to implement the relevant resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly," said Huang Zhongpo, minister counselor of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations.

In a speech at a plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Huang said the embargo and other sanctions imposed by theUnited States against Cuba had severely impeded Cuban efforts to alleviate poverty, raise the standard of living, and realize economic and social development for national construction.

"The US action constitutes an encroachment of the human rights and fundamental freedom of the Cuban people, including their rightto subsistence and right to development," Huang said.

He also said that using embargo and other sanctions to force a country to abandon its chosen path of development, or even to subvert its government, is contrary to the purposes and principlesenshrined in the UN Charter as well as fundamental norms in moderninternational relations.

It is a distortion and flagrant violation of the principle of democracy, Huang said, adding that "economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Cuba had an extraterritorial character that flies in the face of international law, and the principles, objectives and rules of international trade."

The General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution by a vote of 173 to three, with four abstentions, urging all countries to refuse to comply with the 38-year US blockade of Cuba. The vote was approved with the largest majority since the General Assembly first debated the blockade in 1992.

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