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Cuba rejects manipulation of fight against transnational organized crime

United Nations, June 22, 2010. Cuba rejected before the United Nations the pretension of using the fight against transnational organized crime as an excuse to impose the concept of limited sovereignty.

He said that these attempts try to overstate the phenomenon, under the argument that it affects the stability and regional or international peace and said this is no responsibility of the Security Council.

Cuba's position was exposed to the General Assembly by Cuban Permanent Representative to the UN, Pedro Nuñez Mosquera, speaking at a high level meeting on Transnational Organized Crime.

The diplomat said that all countries, regardless of their economic power, land area or number of inhabitants, are vulnerable to different forms of crime.

Among these, he mentioned the outrageous financial fraud scandals that have threatened the essence of the international financial system, the human trafficking, smuggling of migrants, money laundering and cyber crime.

Cuban Ambassador said that the first step to be taken in order to fight such acts, particularly Transnational Organized Crime, is the struggle against underdevelopment and the establishment of an international economic order more just and equitable.

He also stressed the importance of international cooperation in that battle, on the basis of full respect for sovereignty, in accordance with national laws and territorial integrity of States.

However, he warned against attempts to use the problem to try to impose the concept of limited sovereignty and rejected the spurious lists of countries that allegedly commit violations related to transnational organized crime.

In this regard he repudiated those made by the United States with clear political purposes, about terrorism, human trafficking and drug trafficking.

These mechanisms operate outside the UN system and are no more than just instruments of political pressure to punish governments that do not accomplish U.S. commands, Nuñez Mosquera said. (Cubaminrex- RHC-PL).