Geneva, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) At the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the politicization of the issue and advocated its end in favor of respectful and constructive dialogue and cooperation.
“The promotion and protection of human rights is a common
ideal. No country is free of challenges, and none has the authority to consider
itself a paradigm in the matter, judge others, and much less, politicize and
use it to stigmatize sovereign States,” the head of Cuban diplomacy warned here.
Speaking at the high-level segment of the 52nd session of
the Human Rights Council, Rodriguez condemned the imperialist efforts to turn
this United Nations body into a court against countries that do not subordinate
to the geopolitical interests of powerful governments. In this regard, he noted
the fact that this position erodes the credibility of the Human Rights Council
and brings it back to the prevailing atmosphere in the extinct Human Rights
Commission.
Rodriguez ratified Cuba’s stance as a founding member State
of the Council to defend dialogue and international cooperation and full
respect for the principles of universality, indivisibility, objectivity and
non-selectivity in human rights matters and their treatment.
In that spirit, we are running for re-election as a member of the Human Rights Council for the 2024-2026 term, he announced.
Regarding the issue, Rodriguez affirmed that Cuba will
continue to raise its voice from the South in defense of the developing
countries, the poor and the excluded.
In his speech at the UN-Geneva, the Cuban foreign minister
called to build a more supportive and cooperative world, in the face of
irrational and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, which
threaten human existence.
