By Prensa Latina
Geneva : Cuba highlighted Monday that the fact of being founding member of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) proves at the end reason defeats force and principles impose power and money.
In his speech at the top-level opening segment of the Seventh HRC Session, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said that after 20 long years of “fighting devils” we end old coercive styles of the group.
The island”s official noted that United States, with several pretexts to legitimate its aggression against Cuba in the former Commission turned “into failed State in this matter, responsible for the most dangerous crimes and violations of human rights.” “That battle has concluded in this way: with the categorical victory of little David,” great in his dignity, against giant Goliat, powerful man with his nuclear weapons and preventive wars,” he noted.
Perez Roque stressed “we will also end one day that criminal blockade imposed to us so we die of hungry and diseases.” “That”s why now and not before,” the island”s foreign minister stated, “we have inked the Human Rights Covenants,” referring to the signing of two texts adopted by Cuba Thursday at the UN main headquarter in New York.
The Cuban diplomatic head reiterated his country” will to cooperate with the HRC works, “with non-discriminatory and universal human rights mechanisms, with the strict respect to our sovereignty.” While five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters are unfairly imprisoned in US jails, that country threatens to bomb over 60 countries and defend asphyxia as a method to extract confessions, the HRC must exist and act, Perez Roque stated.
The Cuban official adopted other reasons to support the UN organization, among them the abuses of outrages committed by Israel against the Palestinian people, the existence of 900 million hungry people and 800 million illiterate persons.