China leads UN call for US and allies to drop sanctions to help fight pandemic
Chinese honour guards are seen near the portrait of Mao Zedong during a ceremony held at the Monument to the People's Heroes on Tiananmen Square in Beijing
CHINA is leading calls on behalf of 26 nations for the US and its allies to immediately lift punitive sanctions on other countries in order to help defeat coronavirus.
Beijing’s UN ambassador Zhang Jun said “unilateral coercive measures” violate the UN Charter, multilateralism and undermine the right to health.
The United States has intensified sanctions against Venezuela and Iran since the pandemic started and tightened its illegal blockade of Cuba.
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