Cuba was elected to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, a body made up of 47 member states, responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights in the world. Founding member of the Council that deposed the former Commission on Human Rights, this is the fifth time that Cuba occupies a seat on this body, among the 8 reserved for the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States.
Firmly committed to the construction of an increasingly just society, with the welfare of the human being and social justice, our country obtained the secret, direct and individual vote of 170 members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, as the result of respect and admiration for the humanist work of the Cuban Revolution, the main guarantee for the enjoyment and protection of human rights on the Island.
In this way, the self-determination and resistance of the Cuban people in the face of the serious obstacles and threats caused by the unilateral policy of hostility, aggression and economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States, which constitutes a flagrant, massive and systematic violation of the human rights and the main obstacle to achieving higher goals in this matter.
It is also recognition of the significant progress that Cuban men and women have made in the enjoyment of all their rights and the extensive record of international cooperation in the field of human rights, demonstrating, through concrete facts, their unequivocal disposition to respectful, frank and open dialogue.
Cuba conducts itself in the Human Rights Council with its own and constructive voice, with its experience as a developing country defender of dialogue and cooperation, contrary to punitive approaches and selectivity, in favor of the promotion and protection of all human rights for all.
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