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The US is the least indicated to accuse anybody, said Perez Roque

By Orlando Oramas

Geneva, Switzerland, Mar 15 (Prensa Latina) The United States is the country least indicated and with no morale to present accusations before the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) affirmed here today Cuban FM Felipe Perez Roque, the eve of his speech before this international forum.

The minister arrived at this city and will occupy the podium in the Assembly Hall near midday on Wednesday, in an intervention which has raised many expectations.

Perez Roque declared to Prensa Latina that Washington pretends to search for a sponsor to his repeated maneuvers against the island in the CHR and he anticipated a new moral defeat.

"There are all sort of rumours going around, it is said maybe they find again some lackey in Latin America. It is also said they could get one in Eastern Europe", he said.

Perez Roque stressed that among the probabilities there is a chance the own US delegation, presents although they would not prefer it that way, their anti-Cuban project.

"But we know beforehand that project is doomed to fail", he predicted.

"People don´t believe in them. Many say it outright, others express their thoughts in a low voice, telling us it is a maneuver lacking any authority", emphasized the minister.

He advised the George W. Bush administration "to mind their own problems and their own crimes".

The Cuban FM underlined the reiterated practice at the CHR of fabricating a pretext to "maintain the genocidal blockade which they tighten more each day".

Perez Roque anticipated that Cuba will speak loud and clear before the 61st session period of the international forum, contrary to the United States, country responsible for the humilliations and tortures on prisoners in the illegal Iraq war.

He recalled that Washington decided that aggression without the approval of the UN, which has left thousands dead among the civil Iraqi population and also about 1500 US youths.

"A country can be powerful, with nuclear weapons, but weak in the moral and in the ethics fields and that is what happens with the US government", affirmed the minister.

He also highlighted the impact of a document signed by numerous personalities all over the world which denounces the Bush administration for trying to condemn Cuba in the human rights issue.

"I was moved when I went through the signatures, to see the presence of such prestigious people, with authority, so many personalities of culture, thought, the press, four Nobel prize winners, outstanding writers, humanists from Europe, the United States and Latin America", he said.

The call, he said, is "the recognition to the resistance of our people, a recognition to their struggle for independence and for a better world".

"I think it is a call to ethics and against hypocrisy and cannot be ignored", he pointed.

On his recent visit to Brussels he assured it was an opportunity to explain Cuba´s stance. "I appreciate an evolution in the positions of the European Union", he expressed.

Approached at this city´s airport, where he arrived after an official visit to Spain, he said relations with that country were on the rise.

"We have to recognize that the Spanish government has played an important role in the EU to try to change the heritage of the Aznar period", he said.

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