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CHINA: US Blockade against Cuba, Example of Human Rights Violation.        
 

CHINA, April 10, 2011.- China on Sunday said the U.S. blockade of Cuba for almost half a century was an example of the United States violating human rights in other nations.

This criticism appeared in a report issued by the Information Office of the Council of State as a response to a document on human rights published on Friday by the White House referring to 2010.

The Chinese document recalls that last October, the UN General Assembly approved for the nineteenth time a resolution demanding the end of the U.S. blockade, which violates the right of the Cuban people to develop.

The U.S. blockade against Cuba classifies as a act of genocide according to Article 2 of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Chinese government said.

The White House uses the human rights issue as a political tool to discredit other countries and achieve U.S. strategic interests.

The Chinese report, Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010, analyzes the situation in that country taking into account civil, political, economic, cultural and social rights. (Cubaminrex-Prensa Latina)