Cuba asks for balanced assessments

HRC reports on various countries:

Switzerland: Cuba asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay for more balanced assessments of situations in various countries.

The Cuban ambassador in Geneva, Rodolfo Reyes, referring to Pillay’s speech Monday, said that the tendency to increase the number and severity of critical value judgments against countries of the South grows stronger.

“The timid and insufficient calls to countries of the North contrast with the reality of unacceptable manhunts against undocumented migrants and the proliferation of walls and fences to marginalize majorities,” he said.

The diplomat added the war crimes documented in Wikileaks, facilities in the occupied territory of Guantanamo (where they are prosecuting a child soldier) and selfish consumerist models that condemn people to hunger.

He also stressed the need of “solving the outrageous imbalance in the geographical composition of the staff of the UN High Commissioner Office”.

Reyes expressed concern over the views and priorities of the High Commissioner in relation to the review process of the Human Rights Council, which mirror the positions of the Western powers.

Ideas and proposals to take the Council back to the practices of political manipulation that sank the former Commission into discredit are being subscribed to, added the Cuban ambassador. Geneva, Prensa Latina