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Nlifiez Mosquera

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2010-01-27
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  1. “That is precisely what is being sought by certain major Powers and their allies so as to bring the Syrian Government into conflict with its brothers in the League of Arab States. The people of Syria have the ability and the wisdom to resolve their issues without outside interference or pressure of any kind. Cuba reaffirms its position in favour of a just and lasting peace for all peoples of the Middle East that will put an end to the occupation of all territories occupied by Israel since 1967 and guarantee the exercise of all rights, including the right to self- determination of the Palestinian people through the establishment of the independent State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

    2012-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6706Resumption1 (2012) · source

  2. “Today we are aware that deployment has begun on bases for unmanned drone aircraft, which cause further uncertainty; that natural resources are being exploited to the benefit of outside interests; and that insecurity is increasing in areas of the Middle East that supposedly were to be defended through those resolutions. Cuba reaffirms yet again that all those measures and actions, including illegal construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the Syrian Golan since 1967, are breaches of international law, international agreements, and of resolutions and the Charter of the United Nations. It is not by chance that attempts are being made to paint for Syria the same scenario of manipulation and pressure that was embodied in resolutions 1970 (2011) and 1973 (2011).”

    2012-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6706Resumption1 (2012) · source

  3. “That situation must be resolved without further delay. The Security Council cannot stand by and merely engage in meetings and thematic debates every three months on these matters. It is essential that the Security Council play its proper role in defending international peace and security, and that it adopt concrete, practical measures to ensure that Israel ends its deliberate policies, which flout international law. The Powers that hold the anachronistic veto power must not be allowed to perpetuate their complicity in this state of affairs or to continue to manipulate the Security Council in pursuit of their own private interests, as occurred with the imposition and reinterpretation of resolutions 1970 (2011) and 1973 (2011).”

    2012-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6706Resumption1 (2012) · source

  4. “The Israeli authorities are identifying areas in East Jerusalem in which to establish national parks, with the clear intention of continuing to hamper the development of Palestinian neighbourhoods and districts. Violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their assets has become systematic. Suffice it to say that the average weekly number of attacks by settlers increased by 40 per cent in 2011 compared to the previous year, and by 165 per cent in comparison to 2009. The abuse and harassment of Palestinian prisoners continues in Israeli prisons. We reiterate our profound concern regarding the critical humanitarian situation in Gaza, which has been compounded by the ongoing imposition of the total blockade by Israel, preventing access to humanitarian aid, goods and supplies and freedom of movement into and out of the Gaza Strip.”

    2012-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6706Resumption1 (2012) · source

  5. “The rounds of negotiations by the Quartet with representatives of Israel and Palestine separately over the past three months have led to no reduction in provocations or produced any concrete proposals on matters such as the delimitation of borders and security mechanisms in the region, despite the fact that the parties had stated their readiness to assess in a constructive way reciprocal actions that might help to reduce tensions and the Quartet had set a deadline of 26 January for the submission of proposals by the parties. There must be a resumption of the negotiation process, which was interrupted by Israel's intransigence and its decision to continue to build settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Israel, as we all know, continues to vandalize Palestinian assets, including in Jerusalem.”

    2012-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6706Resumption1 (2012) · source

  6. “Mr. Nl'ifiez Mosquera (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): My delegation endorses the statement made this morning by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. Unfortunately, since the last time that the Security Council met to discuss these items, exactly three months ago (see S/PV.6636), the situation in the Middle East has not changed in any significant way. Cuba reiterates its support for the application made by the President of the Palestinian Authority for recognition of Palestine as a full State Member of the United Nations. As we all know, however, powerful interests oppose that application, and it is those same interests that have withdrawn their support for UNESCO for having accepted Palestine into full membership in that organization, as is only just.”

    2012-01-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6706Resumption1 (2012) · source

  7. “Finally, we reiterate the firm, tireless readiness of the Government and the people of Cuba to cooperate in multilateral efforts to put an end to all terrorist acts, methods and practices in all their forms and manifestations.”

    2011-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6658 (2011) · source

  8. “For six years now, Luis Posada Carriles, a self-confessed murderer, has enjoyed the official protection of the Government of the United States of America, and from North American territory announces future crimes with complete impunity. Nevertheless, for trying to prevent terrorist attacks and share information with the Government of the United States, five Cuban anti-terrorist compatriots were unjustly convicted and are serving cruel prison sentences in the United States; one of them is not allowed to return home, under the absurd excuse of a parole arrangement. It is high time that we end this two-faced morality and double standards in this important matter. Terrorism must be rejected under all circumstances. Closer cooperation among States is needed in order to fight against this scourge.”

    2011-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6658 (2011) · source

  9. “In fulfilment of the provisions of resolution 1267 (1999), the competent Cuban authorities are regularly informed of the updates to the consolidated list drawn up by the Committee established pursuant to the resolution. Cuba has maintained broad and sustained cooperation with the Counter-Terrorism Committee. We have given detailed and transparent reports on seven occasions of the measures adopted by our country to ensure the prevention of and the fight against terrorism, as stipulated in resolution 1373 (2001). For years now, our country has presented the Security Council with detailed information regarding terrorist actions against Cuba. Unfortunately, to date our denunciations have not received a concrete response. Terrorism against Cuba has taken the lives or seriously hurt thousands of our fellow countrymen and countrywomen.”

    2011-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6658 (2011) · source

  10. “The shameful inclusion of a State like Cuba, which fights terrorism, further discredits this unilateral mechanism and compromises the credibility of the United States in its fight against this scourge. Since resolution 1540 (2004) was adopted, Cuba itself has undertaken practical measures to guarantee its full application. Our country does not possess and has no intention of possessing weapons of mass destruction. The possession of such weapons will never be part of our national defence strategy and never has been. On the contrary, we support the urgent prohibition and total elimination of these weapons worldwide. Our national nuclear, chemical and biological programmes have always been for strictly peaceful means and have been used to the benefit of the well-being of the Cuban people.”

    2011-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6658 (2011) · source

  11. “If it were not for the enormous cost of sanctions added to the blockade that this unfair designation imposes on the Cuban people and the dangers that this decision entails, it would simply be a mockery of the international community and nothing more than a typical effort to conceal the lack of seriousness and the political nature of all decisions taken by the United States in relation to Cuba. Cuba vigorously rejects the inclusion of our country on this unilateral and spurious list, which is politically motivated and corrupt in its conception, having been prepared by the United States Department of State. Like other lists drawn up without authority by an international organization, it is in complete violation of international law.”

    2011-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6658 (2011) · source

  12. “The measures to eliminate international terrorism must be based on strict respect for the Charter of the United Nations, the principles of international law and international humanitarian law. Cuba fully supports the position of the Non-Aligned Movement, opposing the unilateral formulation of lists that accuse States of supposed support for terrorism, since such lists are incompatible with international law and resolutions of the United Nations. Despite Cuba's proven and transparent record in fighting terrorism, the Government of the United States persists in its arbitrary decision to include my country in a list of States that sponsor international terrorism in an ever more pathetic annual ritual, given that the impossibility, since these claims are false, to objectively substantiate the stigma that they attempt to impose on us.”

    2011-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6658 (2011) · source

  13. “Mr. Nl'ifiez Mosquera (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): I thank the Chairs of the three Committees for the information provided. Our country, as all know, strictly fulfils the provisions of resolutions 1267 (1999), 1373 (2001) and 1540 (2004), and will continue to do so. Cuba reiterates its firm commitment to fighting terrorism and its deepest rejection and condemnation of all terrorist acts, methods and practices in all their forms and manifestations by whomsoever committed against whomsoever, wherever they are committed, and whatever their motivations, including those acts committed by States that may be directly or indirectly involved. State terrorism is also one of the most abominable forms of terrorism.”

    2011-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6658 (2011) · source

  14. “It will never be possible to eradicate terrorism if only some acts are condemned while others are covered up. Cuba urges the United States Government once again to try Posada Carriles as what he is - a terrorist. Cuba urges once again - backed by the clamour of the international community and the growing clamour of the people of the United States, despite the wall of silence that the authorities wish to establish around this case - for the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters to be set free. 44”

    2010-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6424 (2010) · source

  15. “Even the prosecutor admitted that there was not enough evidence to support any of the charges made against them. Nonetheless, they find themselves unjustly imprisoned in this country. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the defunct Commission on Human Rights spoke out on this case. Many organizations of international lawyers throughout the world have spoken out about this case. The case is well known despite the wall of silence that attempts have been made to erect around it. Over the past 50 years, my country has been the victim of many terrorist acts organized within the territory of the United Stares. Those acts have claimed 3,478 lives in my country, and a further 2,099 people have been injured. Double standards cannot prevail when it comes to terrorism.”

    2010-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6424 (2010) · source

  16. “The case of the five young anti-terrorist Cubans in the United States is also well known, despite the wall of silence that the Government of the United States has sought to set up around them. These five young Cubans infiltrated terrorist organizations in the United States and uncovered plans for terrorist acts against Cuba that would have claimed the lives of Cuban and United States citizens. The Cuban Government delivered all of that information to the United States Government. Instead of imprisoning the terrorists, the United States Government imprisoned the five young Cuban counter-terrorists. They were sentenced unjustly to long periods of incarceration in a rigged and politically manipulated trial, without evidence, in the city of Miami, surrounded by intense media propaganda.”

    2010-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6424 (2010) · source

  17. “Cuba reiterates that the handling of the case of Posada Carriles by the Government of the United States, if he is not extradited to Venezuela or tried as what he is, a well known terrorist, is a flagrant violation of resolution 1373 (2001). The revealing statements made by the confessed terrorist Francisco Chavez Abarca, who was detained by the Venezuelan authorities as he was attempting to carry out an attack against stability in that country and other brotherly countries, confirm details of the new pathways being exploited by international terrorism and provide irrefutable proof of the guilt of Posada Carriles and his sponsor, the United States. The plans of this terrorist included sinking ships loaded with oil en route to Cuba.”

    2010-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6424 (2010) · source

  18. “Mr. Nl'ifiez Mosquera (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): Given the reports that we have submitted to it, the Security Council is very familiar with the case of the well known, self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is responsible for the mid-air explosion of a Cubana de Aviacion plane with 73 people on board. He is also responsible for many acts of terrorism against my country in which citizens of other countries have also died. Despite the fact that it has all the evidence against Posada Carriles that we have provided, the Government of the United States, as its representative has just acknowledged, refuses to try Posada Carriles for terrorism and prosecutes him instead on minor charges.”

    2010-11-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6424 (2010) · source

  19. “Cuba supports the quest for a peaceful, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and reiterates its hope that the current efforts will put an end to the occupation of all Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, and enable the establishment of an independent State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  20. “We also reaffirm that all those measures and actions, including the illegal construction and expansion of Israel settlements in the Syrian Golan since 1967, are violations of international law, international agreements, the Charter and resolutions of the United Nations, including Security Council resolution 497 (1981), and of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and are in defiance of the international community. Cuba demands that Israel withdraw completely from the occupied Syrian Golan to the borders of4 June 1967. Israel cannot be allowed to continue to act with impunity. It is able to do so only because of the support it receives from the super-Power.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  21. “Israel must forthwith cease all its offences against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and meet its obligations under international law, particularly international humanitarian and human rights law. Cuba reaffirms that every measure or action taken by Israel with the purpose of changing the legal, physical or demographic condition and the institutional structure of occupied Syrian Golan, as well as any measure taken by Israel in order to impose its jurisdiction and administration over that territory, are null and void and carry no legal weight.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  22. “More than 20 civilians have died so far this year because of Israeli 10-22138 hostilities, while 11,000 homes have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands are forced to live outdoors. Cuba calls once again for Israel to lift its illegal blockade and allow the entry of supplies of all kinds into the Gaza Strip, enabling reconstruction to begin. These measures and policies carried out by Israel are serious, flagrant breaches of international law, the Charter of the United Nations and numerous General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, as well as the Advisory Opinion of 9 July 2004 of the International Court of Justice.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  23. “The Palestinian population of East Jerusalem is growing, but they are forbidden to build and are forced to live in slum conditions, deprived of their most basic human rights. The situation in the Gaza Strip following Israel's brutal attack a year ago continues to be of great concern. Israel's imposition of closures and restrictions to the free movement and access of people and goods, including humanitarian and medical supplies, has made the area's recovery and reconstruction practically impossible, and has also aggravated already precarious levels of unemployment and poverty. The ongoing siege in the Gaza Strip has left a million and a half people living under constant threat of death and deprived of the most basic services.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  24. “Cuba is deeply concerned about Israel's continued demolition of Palestinian homes and eviction of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, as well as other illegal acts of incitement, provocation and aggression by extremist settlers against the Palestinian population and holy places, which have made the present situation very unstable and dangerous. The enormous physical, economic and social devastation that these illegal and destructive practices have wrought has a profound effect on the peace process and could also prejudice the outcome of an agreement on Jerusalem's final status. The situation in East Jerusalem is increasingly difficult and perilous. Israeli settlement activities are accelerating, and more than 5,000 people have lost their homes.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  25. “Cuba reiterates its deep regret over the continued suffering of the Palestinian people under Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization for more than 40 years, as well as the fact that they continue to be denied their basic human rights, including the inalienable right to self-determination and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their lands, in accordance with international law and General Assembly resolution 194 (III). In flagrant violation of international law, and contrary to the objectives of the peace process, the occupying Power continues its illegal construction of settlements and the wall throughout the West Bank and, in particular in and around East Jerusalem.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source

  26. “Mr. Nl'ifiez Mosquera (Cuba) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for having convened this very important meeting of the Security Council. We also thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing this morning. We have to acknowledge the fact that little progress has been made since the last time the Security Council reviewed this question. The situation in the Middle East, and particularly in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, continues to be a matter of great concern. The ongoing illegal occupation by Israel of Palestinian and other Arab territories remains the major obstacle to achieving a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region.”

    2010-01-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6265Resumption1 (2010) · source