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New Regulations of Human Rights Council Discussed

CUBA, June 12, 2007.- The UN Human Rights Council, of which Cuba is a member, entered on Monday the home stretch of a process to adopt a new set of regulations that respect cultural, ideological and political diversity in dealing with the theme of human rights.

For years, this has been the main issue of contradiction between the developed countries and the Third World nations, which are now revitalized by the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the president of the Human Rights Council, Mexican Alfonso de Alba, was moderately optimistic about the future set of regulations, a text of 47 pages presented to the 47 member countries of the UN body that seeks to re-establish the rules of their work.

Important moments of Monday's working agenda were the reports presented by the Special Rappateurs on Judges and Magistrates' Independence, Racism and Right to Food Supply.

Non Governmental Organizations also intervened to criticize the US impunity regarding their arbitrary detentions and torture as part of the so-called "war on terror." They also denounced the secret jails and unconstitutional trials after the invasion of Iraq and the abuses committed in the prisons of Abu Ghraib and at the Guantanamo Naval Base.

Currently, Latin America is represented at the Human Rights Council by Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. (Cubaminrex-AIN)

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