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Cuba Warns over Selective Practices at Human Rights Council.

CUBA, November 4, 2010.- Cuba reaffirmed on Wednesday at the United Nations its determination to keep on fighting against selective practices and political motivations that lie behind the treatment of human rights-related situations.

In his address to the UN General Assembly, Cuban permanent delegate to the international organization, Pedro Nuñez Mosquera, said the island will oppose any attempt within the United Nations' Human Rights Council to repeat selective and discriminatory practices against other countries.

Nuñez Mosquera said Cuba will not remain silent nor be an accomplice of hypocritical behaviors or proposals aimed at bringing the HRC back to the harmful period of the former commission on this matter.

Nuñez Mosquera admitted that the work of the recently created UN body has been effective and transparent, but he warned over the existence of challenges threatening its atmosphere of cooperation and genuine dialogue.

The Cuban representative expressed his concern over the use of certain topics within the HRC’s agenda to slander Third World nations, ignoring human right violations taking place in the most powerful, developed nations.

Regarding the review process of the HRC initiated in Geneva, the Cuban diplomat insisted that it is not a matter of reforming the UN body or making radical changes to it. Nuñez Mosquera said: “It is the unfair, anti-democratic and unequal international order that needs to be totally reformed.” (Cubaminrex-RHC)