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THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Cuba has learned of, with profound
concern, the statement made on August 31 by Barack
Obama, President of the United States, in which he
announced his decision to launch a military action
against the Syrian Arab Republic.
Without leaving any margin
whatsoever for attempts underway to reach a
political solution to the conflict, or presenting
any kind of evidence, and with total disrespect for
the opinions of many countries – including some of
his principal allies – and the United Nations, the
President of the United States has announced his
intention to engage in actions in violation of
international law and the UN Charter. These will
inevitably provoke more death and destruction and
will unavoidably lead to an intensification of the
existing conflict in this Arab nation.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Cuba calls on members of the UN
Security Council to fulfill their mandate to prevent
any rupture of the peace and to stop a military
intervention which threatens international security
in this volatile region of the world.
In the view of Cuba, the General
Assembly, the sole United Nations body in which all
countries are represented, likewise has a
responsibility to halt the aggression, and
particularly so when it is foreseeable that the
Security Council, given the preeminence of the
United States on this Council, will be unable to
make a decision. In the exercise of its authority,
the General Assembly must urgently meet and take
essentially needed measures.
The UN Secretary General must
directly involve himself in preventing actions which
the President of the United States has presented as
virtually inevitable. It is his responsibility to
make diplomatic, urgent and vigorous gestures to the
U.S. government in order to try and save the immense
responsibility of his position in relation to peace
and world stability.
The Group of 20 is to meet in Saint
Petersburg, Russia, September 5-6. This meeting, in
which many of the principal world leaders will be
participating, cannot evade its obligation to
discuss the situation created with the President of
the United States and adopt concrete action in this
context.
If the truth were not hidden from
them and they were not constantly inundated with
tendentious, manipulated and incomplete information,
the American people who, in successive wars from
Vietnam to date, have had to suffer the death of
tens and thousands of their young people, would not
remain indifferent to a new conflagration which
would produce more loss of life and, when the moment
comes, would demand that corrupt politicians and the
lying press act with responsibility.
The question arises as to what the
United States Congress will do when it opens its
sessions next September 9 and must choose between
the initiation of another war or the preservation of
world peace, between life or death. If, as the
British Parliament has done, members reject the
attempts at aggression announced by the President,
it will have made a surprising and valuable
contribution to world peace and questioned the
political system of the country. If it approves such
actions, it must assume the consequences before the
implacable records of history.
Cuba also calls on leaders of world
opinion in the United States and the world to
prevent the law of the jungle prevailing over good
sense, in relation to illegal and illegitimate
attacks being launched against other countries and
diplomacy being supplanted by war.
At the same time, Cuba urges peace
and religious leaders, youth and students, workers,
artists and academics, social movements, progressive
forces and all those who reject war, to mobilize in
opposition to the decision made by the President of
the United States to attack the Arab nation.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also
calls for the preservation of Syria’s sovereignty,
independence and territorial integrity and the right
to self-determination of its people, and the
promotion of a solution to the conflict via
diplomatic routes, without further bloodshed.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
the Republic of Cuba.
Havana, September 1, 2013.
No resulta asombroso que mercenarios sonadores lepras ComuNazy, que responde al 'diktat' del gobierno que viola de manera consuetudinaria las libertades fundamentales de su pueblo, lleguen al extremo del oprobio de ponerse al servicio de los peores enemigos de la humanidad, democracia y la libertad. CastroDictadura ante la Comisión de Derechos Humanos en Ginebra para no condenar a la tiranía siria de Bachar el Assad, ante la fuerte represión con que acorrala a las multitudinarias y pacificas manifestaciones en su contra. En la votación, fue condenado el gobierno de Damasco por 26 votos contra 9. Cuba se opuso y votó junto a China, Rusia, Paquistán, Bangla Desh, Ecuador, Gabón, Malasia y Mauritania. A inicios de la década del 70, una brigada de tanques cubanos, sirvió a las órdenes del Hafez el Assad (padre de Bachar) y el mismo Fidel Castro visitó ese país en el año 2001.
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