Cuba is Committed to Peace and Human Rights
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Cuba’s first deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Penalver reiterated his country’s commitment to peace, multilateralism and the people’s full exercise of all human rights.
Addressing the High-Level Segment of the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Cuban diplomat insisted in the need for respectful and constructive dialog and cooperation as effective ways to promote and protect human rights, without their politicization, double standards, conditioning or pressures.
No country is exempt from facing challenges in the field of human rights; no country has the authority to self-proclaim example of such rights or single out other models, cultures and economic and social systems, Penalver noted.
For the over 60 years now, Cuba has endured a US economic, commercial and financial blockade aimed at subverting the country’s domestic order and create ungovernability and undermine the nation’s constitutional system.
The US blockade is a massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the Cuba people’s human rights, the diplomat noted.
In his message, the diplomat reiterated his country’s support of the Palestinian people currently facing the violation of their human rights in the territories illegally occupied by Israel.
The Israeli war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in Palestine must immediately cease, the Cuban diplomat stressed.(Source: ACN)
