Cuba Proposes World Change to Improve Human
Rights
Cuba´s Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque
said Wednesday in Geneva that a UN Commission on Human Rights without
selectivity, polarization, blackmail, double standards and hypocrisy
would only be possible if the world changes.
Pérez Roque spoke at the 61st session of the United Nations Commission
on Human rights and his statement was followed by a great ovation,
something unusual inside the building where the event was taking place.
The Cuban minister said his country does not consider an illusion to
achieve such challenge but a cause the country is currently struggling
for and will be doing so in the future.
"The Commission on Human Rights represents nowadays the unjust and
unequal world we are living in," the diplomat said.
Perez Roque reiterated that Cuba will never stop fighting the maneuvers
of the US government to try to condemn the Cuba. He added that the
administration of President George W. Bush is afraid of the Cuban
example to the world.
"We are a dangerous example, a symbol that only a just, fraternal and
socialist society can make possible so that its people enjoy all
rights," he stressed.
The Cuban diplomat exhorted the UNCHR to find in Cuba any evidence of
extrajudicial execution, a person disappeared, a journalist murdered or
a tortured convict.
The foreign minister said Washington has plans to turn Cuba into a
colony, privatize the health care and educational systems, and finish
with the national resources.
Pérez Roque questioned the UNCHR for its silence regarding the
violations against the five Cubans imprisoned in US jails. The minister
also denounced the partiality of the Commission when the European Union
refused to co-sponsor and vote in favor of a project resolution to
investigate tortures and humiliation against hundreds of prisoners at
the Pentagon´s naval base in Guantanamo.
"Cuba is the voice of millions of voiceless people," commented an
African delegate participating in the session.
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