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Cuba Rejects Hypocrisy of Western Rhetoric in Geneva

CUBA, March 17, 2010. -  Cuba said on Tuesday that the Western powers’ request to the UN Human Rights Council to pay attention to human rights issues only in countries of the South shows the hypocrisy of their rhetoric, their hegemonic pretensions and their ideological intolerance.

Prensa Latina news agency reports that the Cuban permanent representative before this UN body in Geneva, Rodolfo Reyes, speaking during the third week of the Human Rights Council’s 13th period of sessions, described these maneuvers as “well-known distraction tactics.”

 

“In their eagerness to hide and extend the impunity they enjoy after flagrant and massive human rights violations against their own peoples and all the human kind, they resort to these methods,” said the Cuban diplomat, who added that “their self-attribution of the role of ‘guardians’ of human rights does not exonerate them from their responsibility for the worst acts ever committed against human dignity and basic liberties.”

 

The Cuban diplomat recalled that the western nations that today insist on discussing in Geneva issues that, according to their viewpoint, need to be analyzed, “are the creators and beneficiaries of the current world economic order and they are also accomplices in and beneficiaries from slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism, which condemned the South to underdevelopment.”

 

Reyes referred to the West’s responsibility for the “brutality and ignominy of the crimes committed in Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo and other centers of death and torture.” He also mentioned the CIA secret flights and prisons and he directly accused Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Belgium and Spain regarding the impunity that their authorities enjoy in this respect.

 

The diplomat also accused the United States and the European Union of being responsible for the destruction of the environment, climate change, the maltreatment of immigrants, and the manipulation of the freedom of expression and assembly. (Cubaminrex - acn)

 

 

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