Speaking at the High-Level Segment of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Cuban Foreign Minister warned that “the right to life is in serious danger.”
There is an attempt to impose economic coercion and political subversion as methods of international relations, said Rodríguez Parrilla before the plenary, which he called on to ‘advocate more strongly for a just and democratic international order that guarantees peace and ‘the balance of the world’.
He further described this mechanism as ‘an important tool for the promotion and defense of human rights without manipulation, politicization, selectivity or double standards.
We note with concern the advance of conservative and neo-fascist platforms, and how developed countries are experiencing a decades-long setback in fundamental rights, including women’s equality, sexual and reproductive rights, the rights of Afro-descendants, ethnic minorities and migrants, he added.
Attempts by Western countries to turn this Council into a repressor against countries that do not subordinate themselves to their interests are unacceptable and jeopardize its credibility and existence.
The disastrous history of the imploded Commission on Human Rights must not be repeated, said Rodriguez Parrilla.
In his words, he described the United States as an active accomplice of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and denounced that the government of that country applies a policy of maximum pressure against Cuba, deteriorating consumption, income and the standard of living of Cuban families.
We thank the 123 States that, last July, pronounced themselves in this Council against the inclusion of Cuba in the spurious list of the State Department on countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism, he said.
We will defend our sovereignty and the socialist State of law and social justice, emphasized the Cuban Foreign Minister, who said that his country will always defend ‘the principles of universality, indivisibility, objectivity and non-selectivity in the treatment of human rights.
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