Cuba warns about the dangers of the imperialist doctrine of preventive strikes 

GENEVA, — Cuba's delegation before the Human Rights Commission of the UN warns of the risks humanity faces by the US doctrine of preventive military strikes.  

According to Rodolfo Reyes, Cuban representative before the Commission, the world is threatened when, "An all powerful nation anoints itself the right to choose who poses a danger to the world and gives itself the right to unilaterally attack any nation without warning, all with the pretext of a preventive action",  adding that humanity has witnessed the horrendous consequences in Iraq all product of the imperial doctrine of preventive strike.  

The Cuban diplomat on the 61st session of the Commission, debating cases of nations under foreign military control, asserted that, "The US by military force wishes to impose it's political and economic models on nations of the southern hemispheres as a means of assuring control and global domination by their transnationals and capital firms."

Reyes alluded to the fact that the Bush administration does not rule out the option of a military strike and intervention against Cuba; he also referred to the 40 year old embargo carried out by Washington, classifying it as embargo of genocide.  

The diplomat also denounced the welcoming into the US of the Cuban-American terrorists set free by the then president of Panama - now residing in Miami. He also commented that, Posada Carriles, the head of the terrorist group who had planned to assassinate President Fidel Castro while he was attending a conference of heads of state of Latin America in Panama, is hiding in a Central American nation and is now planning new acts of terrorism against the island.  He went on to say that Posada Carriles is the self confessed terrorist who in 1976 bombed a Cuban airliner, killing 73 passengers on board.  

Speaking before the commission Reyes reiterated Havana's traditional posture with respect to the colonization of Puerto Rico, asserting that Cuba demands that the brother nation have it's self determination respected and that it be given the opportunity to determine it's own future.   

Reyes also demanded that Israeli troops pull out of all occupied lands, including Palestine and Golan Heights, adding that Cuba supports the Palestinian's desire to establish their own independent state. 

CUBAN SOLIDARITY ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE WORLD DEMAND THAT THEIR GOVERNMENTS DO NOT SUPPORT NEW MANEUVERS BY THE US AGAINST CUBA 

STOCKHOLM, —  A General Assembly of the Swiss-Cuban Friendship Association in Stockholm urged the Swiss government to distance itself from the US politics aimed against Cuba before the Commission of Human Rights (CHR).  

According to the Association the assembly's declaration was sent to it's members, 250 organizations within that nation, as well as to the Swiss government and to the press.

The document asks that Switzerland as well as the US, on the 61 session of the Human Rights Commission, take action against the concrete crimes committed against humanity and the violation of human rights, and that they abandon their obsession in singling out and attacking Cuba under the pretext of human rights. 

Meanwhile in Managua Nicaragua the members of the Sandinista Liberation Front in parliament condemned Washington's maneuvers of trying to impose it's resolution against the island before the HRC of the UN. 

A document signed by members of both parties and released to the press, denounced the actions of Enrique Bolaños for his supporting Washington's dirty game against Cuba, and for his use of public money to carry the anti-Cuban campaign in Stockholm.

Likewise, solidarity groups in Ecuador demanded that president Lucio Gutiérrez abstain in the voting against Cuba on any maneuver designed to condemn the island before the HRC.  

In Ecuador, the Cuban solidarity groups, National Coordinator of Solidarity and the Institute Cuba-Ecuador José Martí, asked that the president take the traditional stance of voting against or abstaining on any resolution designed to attack a brother nation.

Translated from article in Granma

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