Main Law Principles
Hailed in Cuba
Havana - Main law
principals are key
elements for all, at a
time the Universal
Declaration of Human
Rights has lost its
original values, Cuban
Parliament President
Ricardo Alarcon said.
The war on terrorism and
fundamental law
principles right must
concern us all, not only
Cubans and Americans,
the Cuban official
stated at the closing
ceremony of the
International Workshop
"The Universal
Declaration of Human
Rights: 60 Years Later."
Alarcon insisted that
the UN Declaration
anniversary marked by
artists, academicians,
social activists,
journalists and
parliamentarians has
turned into a worthless
tool, ignored by all.
At a plenary session
held at the Havana
Conference Center, the
National Assembly
president said it was
fair that people from
all blocks of life
commemorate the 60th
anniversary of such a
historic document, but
claimed its principles
are still far from being
implemented.
Academicians, artists,
journalists, social
activists and
parliamentarians
attending the event also
held a workshop on
financial and
environmental crisis,
state terrorism, and
war.
The event was sponsored
by the Cuban and
Venezuelan chapters of
the Network of Networks
"In Defense of Humanity"
and the Cuban National
Commission of the UN
Education, Science and
Culture Organization
(UNESCO).
Participants in the
forum demanded the
closure of the
Guantanamo Bay prison
and that the territory
be returned to Cuba, the
lifting of the US
economic, financial and
trade blockade of the
island, and the release
of five Cuban
anti-terrorist fighters
unfairly imprisoned in
US prisons since 1998.
Debates included the
analysis of the
dangerous problems
gripping today"s world,
in which the guarantee
of human right for
everyone, fully
effective and
indivisible, is still a
need being postponed
again and again.
Also on the agenda were
the right to life,
peace, health,
education, work,
accusation to tortures
and the condemnation to
the manipulation of that
theme.
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