Pinter joins Nobel Prize Winners in Rejecting
Moves Against Cuba
British dramatist, poet and activist Harold
Pinter added his name to that of Nobel prize winners Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel, Rigoberta Menchú, Nadime Gordimer and José Saramago in signing
a statement by world intellectuals that rejects manoeuvres organized by
the US at the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
Mr Pinter, Britain"s most honoured and prominent living playwright and
actor, has been a sharp critic of US foreign policy for some years.
Latest reports by the international press agencies state that more than
500 intellectuals and artists from all over the world have signed the
manifesto published by eight dailies mainly in Spain, Argentina and
Mexico.
With the title, "Stop the new manoeuvres against Cuba," the call
highlights that, until April 22, during the sessions of the Commission
on Human Rights in Geneva, the US government will try, by pressuring the
member nations, to introduce a resolution against the island.
The document denounces the rigged and selective treatment of the matter
year after year within that commission to justify the worsening of the
blockade and the aggressions that the US, violating all international
rights, exercises against a small nation.
The text confirms its disagreement with the fact that last year, it was
not even possible to debate the atrocious violations of human rights in
the US jails of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo at the commission.
The manifesto, which can be subscribed on the Internet and has the
support of many outstanding US intellectuals, requests the governments
of the countries represented on the Commission
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