Cuba Decries Political Hypocrisy in Geneva

Geneva, March 3, (RHC).- Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs deplored the ideological manipulation, political hypocrisy and double standard of industrialized nations on Wednesday, during a speech at the 13th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

They are the creators of the colonial system that served to plunder the nations of the South and doomed them to underdevelopment, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said at the UN Human Rights Council.

"Those who proclaim themselves as human rights defenders and try to question others are directly responsible for the most serious, systematic and flagrant human rights violations, chiefly the right to live," he stated.

In his address to the Human Rights Council, the Cuban Foreign Minister lashed out at the unique thinking the Western bloc tries to impose on the world.

They benefit from exclusive models, excluding values, media war, imminent truths, commercial subculture and imposition of conditioned responses, he stressed.

He also denounced that the manipulation of terror has allowed the US and its European allies to unleash wars of domination and the conquest of energy resources in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming millions of lives.

On this issue, he asked who would be blamed for the brutalities committed in Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Guantanamo Naval Base and other centers of torture and death. "When will those responsible be judged and impunity will come to an end?", he insisted.

"The right to live is constantly violated in the world. The existence of human life is seriously threatened by climate change," the minister commented.

After referring to the historic responsibility of "the same who unleash and conduct wars," Bruno Rodriguez described the Copenhagen Summit as shameful, "with its fraudulent and excluding practices," he concluded.