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Cuba Urges UN Human Rights Council to Investigate Guantanamo Tortures

Havana, June 21, 2006. (ACN) Cuba urged the new UN Human Rights Council to fully investigate the abuses committed at the prison camp the United States operates in its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, as well as the widespread reports of secret flights and jails.

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque spoke with the press in Geneva, Switzerland after addressing the Human Rights Council on its second day of sessions. He said Cuba will continue defending a stance on the issue based on principles, Granma daily reports.

The foreign minister recalled that the complicity of European countries with Washington on the use of torture at Guantanamo "gave a coup de grace" to the now defunct UN Commission on Human Rights, reported Notimex.

However, with the opening of the new UN body, and the renewed interest to avoid politicizing it or selectivity, Perez Roque told Notimex that Cuba hopes the situation at Guantanamo will be reintroduced.

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