Certain country launched unilateral sanctions against other countries by wantonly citing human rights as an excuse, which was widely criticized by the international community, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Friday.

Wang made the remarks at a press briefing in response to a report that UN human rights experts said that the United States' unilateral sanctions on countries including China, Russia, Cuba, Iran and Venezuela severely violate these countries' human rights.

"Facts abound to prove that unilateral sanctions gravely impact the international political and economic order and the global governance system, severely undermine the sanctioned countries' efforts to mobilize resources, grow their economy and improve people's well-being, threaten the right to life, self-determination, and development, and constitute a continuous, systemic and large-scale violation of human rights," Wang said.

China consistently opposed unilateral sanctions and urges the relevant country to heed the just voice of the international community and immediately stop unilaterally imposing coercive measures, Wang added.