Cuba Signs Two
International Treaties
On Human Rights
Cuba signed on Thursday
two international
treaties on the
protection and promotion
of human rights.
Cuban Foreign Minister
Felipe Perez Roque
signed at the UN
Headquarters the
International Covenant
on Civil and Political
Rights and the
International Covenant
on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, adopted
by the UN General
Assembly in December
1966.
"The signature
formalizes and reaffirms
Cuba's commitment with
the rights protected in
both instruments which
my country has been
systematically realizing
since the triumph of the
Cuban revolution in
1959," Perez Roque said.
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