(VOVworld) – The international community has supported the UN’s resolution asking the US to lift economic embargo on Cuba. Salvadorian President Sanchez Ceren congratulated the Cuban government and people.

A UN General Assembly meeting

The South American Common Market Group, Mercosur, Deputy Representative to the UN, Meteo Estreme, said it’s time the US to completely remove sanctions on Cuba. He said the sanctions have violated international law and human rights, causing serious consequences to the Cuban people, hammering the implementation of the UN development goals.
French newspaper, L’Humanite, said the US isolationist policy towards Cuba failed because it was criticized by many countries. The EU said the US policy has violated international trade law and the EU has been negotiating normal relations with Cuba. James McGovern, Senator of Massachusetts State of the US, has called on the Obama administration to remove embargo against Cuba over the last 52 years.
At the UN General Assembly meeting on October 28, 188 of the 193 member countries voted to approve a resolution on the need to lift economic, trade, and financial embargo against Cuba. Head of the Vietnamese delegation to the UN Nguyen Phuong Nga said Vietnam considers dialogue and negotiation, not violence and embargo, as key to obtain long lasting peace. Vietnam once again asked the US to stop embargo against Cuba.