October 27, 2006

Statement of Cuba on Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives

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Cuba once again deflects any possible criticism of its own human rights records by ranting against the United States in this statement to the Third Committee of the General Assembly. Cuba states that "Liberty and democracy are not the exclusive patrimony of the countries of the North, to which no one has granted powers to judge and determine the political and social system of other equally sovereign States" in order to undermine any criticism of Cuba's decades long dictatorship.