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Ambassador Do Hung Viet, head of Vietnam's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, urged member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to uphold the spirit of unity and to firmly raise their voices against the blockade and sanctions imposed on Cuba, in defense of the organization's founding principles. His remarks were delivered during the NAM meeting held on May 27 in New York, United States. The Vietnamese ambassador expressed Vietnam's deep solidarity with the challenges facing the Cuban people. He emphasized that unilateral coercive measures have exacerbated Cuba's economic and social difficulties amid increasing international pressure.

I cannot find a way to refer to the defense of the central role of the United Nations and the promotion of peace and development and the primary responsibility of the Security Council in maintaining international peace and security and its contribution to dialogue and the promotion of political solutions; without asking this Security Council to, realistically, at least try to fulfill its primary and supreme mandate regarding the military threat and energy blockade against Cuba; nor can I refrain from encouraging the United Nations General Assembly that, in any case, use with determination its extensive and decisive powers, its moral, legal, and democratic authority that the peoples have conferred upon it, in the situation of Cuba.