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The United States should stop using human rights as a pretext for its anti-Cuban practices, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, formed last year to replace the Human Rights Commission, decided to drop Cuba and Belarus from its blacklist.
The decision means that the two countries will not face further scrutiny for abuses, particularly within the field of political rights.
"This is a decision that puts an end to 20 years of manipulating Cuba's human rights record under the instigation and enormous pressure from the United States in the old UN Human Rights Commission," Perez Roque told a news conference.
"The Cuban government considers this a resounding and indisputable victory of Cuban diplomacy," he added.
Perez Roque said Washington no longer had any excuse for maintaining its 45-year-old economic, financial and trade embargo on Cuba. |
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