Cuba slams UN Security Council over Palestine

[Gaza issue]

* Urged to find a just solution

* Lack of action due to double measures

UN: Cuba criticized the UN Security Council on Monday for not approaching in depth debate over Palestine to find a just and impartial solution to the conflict.

The criticism was made by the permanent representative of Cuba to the UN, Pedro Nunez Mosquera, during a plenary session of the General Assembly on the Palestine issue.

The diplomat pointed that the lack of action in the Council is a result of applying double measuring sticks or veto threat on the part of the United States to any draft resolution aims at a just and impartial solution to the conflict.

Meanwhile, he said, those responsible for the barbarian acts in Palestinean territories continue unpunished.

Nunez Mosquera said such impunity is only possible by the protection of Washington to Israel and the continuation of giving that country financial resources and US weapons with which Tel Aviv sustains its aggressive policy.

He stressed that Israeli military aggression on Gaza increased the number of dead, wounded, displaced and homeless Palestineans, specially in that sieged strip.

He also repudiated the blockade imposed by Israel on the territory, the restrictions exerted on the circulation of Palestinians and other measures implanted by Tel Aviv.

United Nations, Prensa Latina