Cuba applauds U.N. human rights watchdog's decision to stop investigating the island

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"Cuba claimed a “historic victory” Tuesday after the U.N.'s new human rights watchdog agreed to halt efforts to monitor its human rights record.

The U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva decided to discontinue examinations of the rights situation in Cuba and Belarus, and to continue its scrutiny of Israel. The council was formed last year to replace the U.N. Human Rights Commission, where the United States had more political influence. The U.S. is only an observer to the new 47-nation council.

The decision angered Cuban-American politicians in the United States, where Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., said she would seek to cut off any U.S. funding to the council."

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"But Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque called it “a historic victory in the fight of our people for justice.”

The decision ends "the anti-Cuban practice that the United States created solely as a pretext to maintain and exacerbate the political genocide that are its blockade and aggressions against Cuba."







Read more: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070619-1452-cuba-un-humanrights.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. From outta nowhere: a colossal miracle! What God hath wrought.

It would be delightful to know how this thing evolved. This MUST mean people sense the old _Bush stranglehold on the world, and proposterous bully act are losing their credibility.

For the U.N. to take this fantastic step now will be to invite the full fury of the _Bush administration, and release a million tiny flying demons from the Cuban "exile" extremists' camp in Miami.

We can fully expect to see revved up campaigns against Cuba appearing almost instantly, in an attempt to seize back the power they believe they have lost by this international act of compassion to Cuba.

New war parties plying the Straights to Cuba, with more boats of fully armed a-holes, bent on more assassinations, random murders, hotel/restaurant/disco bombings, while the Miami FBI publicly looks the other way?


Congress people Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario and Lincoln Diaz Balart,
the men being ex-nephews-in-law of Cuba's President Fidel Castro
(he married their father's sister Mirta Diaz-Balart).



The good part is, this is a HUGE step forward for Cuba, spiritually. The world has removed, formally, one of _Bush's instruments of torment which has been hanging over their heads.

[IndianaGreen]

3. We still have lots of human rights abusers in Cuba...

at the US Naval base at Guantanamo.

[David__77]

2. I agree with the decision regarding Cuba and Belarus.

And I cannot agree with the investigation of Israel because I do not believe this body should exist to begin with. The UN can only serve a useful role narrow parameters established by sovereign states practicing their own social systems.

[geek tragedy]

4. The UN Human Rights body is a joke that makes its

decisions based on politics, not on concern for human rights.

Then again, who am I to judge a human rights body whose wise voices include:

Vladimir Putin
The Saudi Royal Family
Pervez Musharraf
The Chinese Communist Party
The Jordanian Royal Family
Fidel Castro
Hosni Mubarak

[Judi Lynn]

5. UN rights body drops Belarus, Cuba monitors

UN rights body drops Belarus, Cuba monitors
GENEVA
20-Jun-07

THE United Nations has dropped independent expert monitors of alleged human rights abuses in Cuba and Belarus, as part of a deal on new rules for the UN Human Rights council, officials said yesterday.

"There is an agreement on a text which covers completely the institutional arrangements" for the functioning of the council, Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico told journalists.

"It is the beginning of a new era for the United Nations and a new culture in dealing with human rights."

Negotiations had gone down to the last Monday deadline set by the UN General Assembly. Eleventh hour disputes included conflicts over the rights monitors and a demand by China for an increase in the threshold for passing a country-specific resolution to a two-thirds majority.

More:
http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/details.php?shape_ID=33897

[Jim Sagle]

6. If it ain't about Israel, it jest ain't worth investigatin'.