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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.
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