• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 02 / 26 / 2011

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Havana, Cuba, Feb 25.- Cuba considered its appointment as Vice-Chairman of the UN Decolonization Committee as recognition of its permanent commitment to the eradication of colonialism worldwide.

Upon assuming the post of vice-chairman, Cuban permanent representative to the UN, Pedro Nunez Mosquera, denounced the wall of silence put up around the Puerto Rican claim for independence.

The election comes when the third decade for the eradication of colonialism has just started, and in a moment when there are still 16 countries on the UN list of non-autonomous territories, besides the colonial situation of Puerto Rico.

Participants in the Round Table aired by Cuban radio and television warned in due course that when the second decade of the UN for decolonization ended in 2010 the neocolonial status of the fraternal Puerto Rican island would still be kept.

In June, 2010, the Cuban diplomat presented a draft resolution on the situation of Puerto Rico, backed by Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, precisely within the context of the 50th anniversary of the approval of Resolution 1514 by the General Assembly, the Granma newspaper reported on that occasion.

However, and in spite of the approval by the UN of 26 resolutions that have endorsed the right of Puerto Rico to self-determination, the Puerto Rican island continues to be a neocolonial territory.

During the speech he delivered on Thursday, the diplomat said that the Decolonization Committee can’t just stand there and do nothing in situations like these – the current repression against the Puerto Rican university students and the Bar Association of Puerto Rico. (acn).

Source: /www.cadenagramonte.cu/english/index.