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Cuba: US Beaten with OAS Resolution

CUBA, June 8, 2009. Cuba has rated as a US defeat the recent approval of a resolution that annulled its exclusion in 1962 from the Organization of American States, and ratified its will not to return to that bloc.

The Cuban government said in declaration imperialism has been defeated with its own instrument, referring to the consensual approval in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, of a document that put an end to the decision that excluded Havana from OAS 47 years ago.

That decision, the text noted, clearly defies the US policy towards Cuba since 1959, and aims at repairing a historic injustice.

The document also thanked the gesture of the Latin American governments, and stressed that in an act of peculiar historic significance, OAS has formally buried the shameful resolution that in 1962 left Cuba out.

That decision was infamous and unlawful, contrary to the objectives and principles declared in the OAS Charter. However, it was consistent with the organization's course, with the reason for its creation, encouraged and defended by the US, it continued.

It was in line with its role as instrument of the US hegemony in the hemisphere, and with Washington's capacity to impose its will on Latin America by the historic time the Cuban Revolution triumphed.

Today, the Latin American and Caribbean region is living another reality. The OAS decision is the fruit of the will of governments most committed with their peoples, with real regional problems, and with a pro-independence feeling it did not prevail in 1962, according to the declaration.

Cuba recognizes the merit of the governments that have tried hard to formally erase that resolution, it went on.

Cuba welcomes with joy this expression of sovereignty and civic mindedness, and thanks the governments which, with a spirit of solidarity, independence and justice, have defended its right to return to the organization, the note affirmed.

Cuba, however, ratifies it decision not to rejoin OAS. (Cubaminrex- PL)

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