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Cuba urges US to return Guantanamo Bay base

HAVANA: Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on Wednesday called for the US naval base in Guantanamo to be returned to Cuba and said he would invite the UN special investigator on torture to visit the island.

Perez Roque said that US President Barack Obama's decision to close within a year the "war on terror" prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay was positive but insufficient.

Cuba expects that Obama's decision to close down the Guantanamo prison camp "is followed by the decision to close down the base and return that territory to the Cubans," a base that the United States "really does not need for its security and defense," Perez Roque said.

Perez Roque also said that the United Nations' torture investigator, Manfred Nowak, will be invited next week "so that he can visit our country during the course of the current year."

Cuba will also ratify "in the next days" the UN international convention against forced disappearances, Perez Roque said.

"Cuba is a country where over the past 50 years there has not been ... a single person that has gone missing. Nor has anyone been tortured, nor has there been a single extrajudicial execution," Perez Roque said.

Thursday, AFP

 

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