United Nations Human Rights Council.
Geneva, Jun 16 (RHC)--Cuba repudiated Thursday at the United Nations Human Rights Council the politicization and selective approaches to attack sovereign countries during a debate on the situation in Nicaragua.
In the continuation of the activities of the 50th regular session of the body based in Geneva, Cuban representative Jairo Rodriguez ratified that the Caribbean nation does not support mechanisms that do not have the approval of the countries concerned.
Cuban Diplomat Jairo Rodriguez
We condemn the interventionist policy promoted against the self-determination and sovereignty of Nicaragua through campaigns against the legal and constitutional order of that sister nation, said Rodriguez at the forum.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet introduced the debate with a new update on the Central American country, accusing it of violations citing "civil society sources."
Rodriguez reiterated Cuba's position of rejecting politically motivated exercises and of privileging the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as the primary way to address the human rights situation in all States without discrimination or manipulation.
He said that eradicating selectivity and politicization is an indispensable condition for the promotion and effective defense of all human rights.
According to the island's representative, dialogue and cooperation should be the guide for the work of the Council's mechanisms, instead of the punitive approach, biased and mediated by the geopolitical interests of Western powers.
At the session, the Attorney General of Nicaragua, Wendy Morales, denounced the update presented by Bachelet, a report she described as irrefutable proof that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights continues to act unfairly and unjustly.
Morales considered the elements gathered to attack a legitimately constituted government as lies and falsehoods.
The Attorney General of the Republic pointed out that this is a new step in the campaign led by the United States against Nicaragua, meddling in its internal affairs with politicized information lacking objectivity.
