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Statement by the Permanent Representative of Cuba, Ambassador Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez, in the Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America. Human Rights Council. Geneva, 5 November 2010.

Cuba recommends the United States:

1. To end the Blockade against Cuba, described as crime of genocide and that seriously violates the human rights of the Cuban people, as well as fundamental freedoms of U.S. citizens and third states.
2. To release the five Cuban political prisoners – arbitrarily detained, as acknowledged by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions in its Opinion No. 19/2005 –, serving unjust sentences that resulted from a politically manipulated trial in open disregard for the rules of the due process.
3. To prosecute or extradite for trial Luis Posada Carriles and other dozens of well-known terrorists living with impunity in the United States and responsible for the deaths of more than 3 000 Cubans and for the maiming or other disability caused to over 2000.
4. To respect the Cuban people’s right to self-determination and to cease their interference and hostile actions against Cuba.
5. To put on trial the perpetrators of tortures, extrajudicial executions and other serious violations of human rights committed in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, los Camp NAMA and BALAD, and those carried out by the Joint Special Operations Command and the CIA.
6. To wipe out war crimes from their troops abroad, including the killings of innocent civilians and to prosecute those responsible.
7. To end:

A) the unjust incarceration of political prisoners, including Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal:
B) the violation of the rights of indigenous peoples;
C) the violence and discrimination against migrants;
D) the prosecution and execution of mentally-ill persons and minors.
E) the discrimination against Afro-descendants.

1. To ensure the realization of the rights to food and health of all who live in their territory.
2. To put an end to their actions against the realization of the rights of peoples to a healthy environment, peace, development and self-determination.

Thank you very much