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Cuba presents document on US
maneuvers in relation to human
rights
Cuba presents document on US maneuvers in relation to human rights
Cuba on Monday presented a document denouncing the maneuvers of the
United States in condemning this Caribbean country at the Geneva Human
Rights Commission (HRC).
The document, titled "The Anti-Cuban Maneuver in Relation to Human
Rights: the Search for a Pretext to the Continuity of the Hostile US
Police Against the People of Cuba," was presented by Director of
Multilateral Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Juan Fernandez.
It was issued after the Feb. 28 US State Department report on human
rights practices in Cuba took President Fidel Castro's government to
task for violations of civil and political rights such as freedom of
speech, press, assembly.
The US report have a pretext to justify its policy and the White House
needs the condemnation against Cuba to justify its blockade and
aggression against this Caribbean country, the document said.
The document revealed how Washington insists the HRC works as part of
its anti-Cuban policy. The text also made clear the Cuba's policy to the
HRC.
Cuba abides by the mechanisms of the human rights commission and has
opened dialogues with different countries about the matter, based on
mutual respect, the text said.
It emphasizes that Cuba "will never tolerate" that the US singles the
country out and step over its right to self-determination.
This new confrontation between Havana and Washington takes place a few
days prior to the start of the 61st HRC Session in Geneva on March 14.
So far, no resolution targeting this island country has emerged. But
Cuba expects that such a proposal will eventually be presented and voted
on around mid-April.
"The United States needs this resolution like a fish needs water because
it needs it to justify the blockade," Cuban Foreign Minister Perez Roque
said earlier, referring to more than four decades of continuing US trade
sanctions against the communist-run country.
Perez Roque said Cuba had not decided yet if it would present are
solution of its own, condemning the United States for the prisoner abuse
scandals.
Cuba last year presented such a resolution, but later suspended it when
it became clear it did not have enough support on the 53-member
commission.
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