Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio told that he does not know what the Cuban regime gains from its loyalty to the Hamas group, which launched a brutal attack on Israel last Saturday, considered the deadliest against civilians in its history country applies.
“The Cuban regime is always 100 percent committed to those elements in the world that violate human rights,” lamented the Republican senator.
According to a statement from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the island’s communist regime believes that the current conflict is “a consequence of 75 years of continuous violations of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and Palestinians.” Israel’s aggressive and expansive policies“.
“The United Nations Security Council must fulfill its mandate and End impunity for Israel, the occupying power with which the United States has been complicit in the past“by repeatedly obstructing the work of the body, thereby undermining peace, security and stability in the Middle East,” said the text from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, reproduced by the presidency.
Given this position, the senator reiterated that if a regime violates human rights on a daily basis within the framework of its system, the Cuban dictatorship will ally itself with these elements.
That’s why, Rubio said, the Cuban regime will always be on the side of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
“Regimes that lack humanity will always unite,” he said.
The United Nations General Assembly meeting in Geneva re-elected Cuba to the Human Rights Council for another three years this Tuesday, despite its long history of serious human rights violations and the more than a thousand current political prisoners.
The Cuban-American senator criticized the Human Rights Council for accepting Cuba and other dictatorships and recommended that the United States not participate in or donate money to the body.
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Rubio said in the interview that the Human Rights Council has no legitimacy because it has members who violate human rights.
The 15 members for the new period 2024-2026 are Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, China, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Malawi and the Netherlands. Russia was ultimately left out.
“It’s like saying, ‘I’m going to form a committee to investigate the crimes,’ but all the members are members of the Mafia,” Rubio explained, after explaining that this reality makes no sense.
Essentially, according to the Cuban-American Council, the Human Rights Council is a group of countries that violate human rights.
Furthermore, these rapists join this body to protect themselves and condemn the countries that condemn them, the Republican senator said.
In its candidacy, Havana praised the “comprehensive reform of the criminal justice system,” which, it assured, included the amendment of the Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Penal Enforcement Legislation. Likewise, amid the worst economic crisis in 60 years and repeated popular complaints about increasing shortages, he praised his own “initiatives” to ensure the “right to food” on the island.
Cuba has joined the HRC six times, in the periods 2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2014-2016, 2017-2019, 2021-2023 and 2024-2026.