Peru Wants President Off Cuba´s Back at UNCHR

Lima, Mar 17 (Prensa Latina) The Peruvian Congress requested President Alejandro Toledo to advise his Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez to abstain in the face of any resolution condemning Cuba at the UN Commission of Human Rights (UNCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland.


The Peruvian congresspersons said their country must defend people´s self-determination and express solidarity with Latin American and Caribbean nations.



The initiative was promoted by opposition congressman Javier Diez Canseco, President of the Parliamentary Friendship with Cuba League, and signed by 78 of 117 legislators of the single-chamber Peruvian Parliament.


According to the document, the Congress approved a multiparty motion on April 9, 2002, to maintain an independent position regarding Cuba, which was also repeated in 2003 and 2004, but the Peruvian delegation voted against Cuba in Geneva.



Since his inauguration on July 28, 2001, Toledo has supported the US anti-Cuban resolutions against the island in the UN Commissions in Switzerland.

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