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From March 14th to April 22nd,2005,
the 61st session of the UN Commission on
Human Rights will take place in Geneva, where once more
the US government will try to pass a resolution against
Cuba.
It is a
manipulated and selective treatment of the topic to
justify the intensification of the policy of blockade
and aggressions by the greatest power on the planet
against a small country, in violation of International
Law. The Commission must represent every United Nations
member State and ensure respect for the rights of all
men and women worldwide. It is significant, however,
that within the Commission, during the last year
sessions, it was not possible to evaluate, not even to
debate, the atrocious violations of human rights taking
place in US prisons in Abuh Ghraib and Guantanamo.
The US
government has no moral authority to set itself up as a
judge of human rights in Cuba, where there is not a
single case of missing persons, torture or extra
judicial killing and where internationally recognized
health, education and cultural levels have been reached
despite the blockade.
We
request the countries represented in the Commission not
to allow it to be used to legitimize the Bush
Administration’s anti-Cuban aggressiveness, when the
current war-mongering policy led by Washington makes
predictable an eventual escalation of very serious
consequences. We also call on journalists, writers,
artists, professors, school teachers and social
activists to address their governments and express by
every possible means that this dangerous maneuver stop.
Member States of the 61st Commission on Human Rights
EEUU, Alemania, Italia, Reino Unido, Francia, Países Bajos,
Irlanda, Finlandia, Rumania, Rusia, Ucrania, Armenia,
Hungría, Argentina, Brasil, México, Paraguay, Ecuador,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Perú, República Dominicana,
Honduras, Canadá, Australia, China, Japón, Sri Lanka,
Malasia, Pakistán, República de Corea, Arabia Saudita,
India, Indonesia, Nepal, Bhután, Qatar, Sudáfrica,
Swazilandia, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Gabón, Guinea,
Sudán, Togo, Kenya, Congo, Egipto, Eritrea, Etiopía,
Nigeria, Mauritania.
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