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Cuba criticizes the North’s hypocrisy
on human rights
GENEVA, March 16.— In a speech at the UN Human
Rights Council, Cuba today strongly attacked the
hypocrisy and selective memory of the countries of
the North, in the hope that their own atrocities
will remain forgotten.
 Exercising
his right to speak in the debate on situation
requiring the Council’s attention,” Resfel Pino, the
Cuban delegate, emphasized that neither the United
States nor the European Union (EU) have the moral
authority to question other nations.
“Throughout this entire debate we have listened to
other Western countries repeating their politicized
and endless lists of countries in which human rights
are allegedly violated,” Pino stated.
The
diplomat questioned the United States, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, the Czech Republic,
and Spain, “countries which we reminded in
yesterday’s session of some of their most horrendous
pages in the context of human rights.” He also
addressed other nations, such as Germany, “which has
been publicly signaled as one of the countries
complicit in the practice of secret detentions, and
whose territory was frequently utilized in the case
of the CIA’s secret flights.”
Translated by Granma International
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