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Cuba Proposes World Change to Improve Human Rights

Geneva, Mar 17 (Prensa Latina) 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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