Cuban VP Says UN Needs Reform; World Banks Should Be Abolished
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer Havana, Cuba (AHN) - Cuba's Vice President, Carlos Lage Davila, tells the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Non-aligned Movement (NAM), "our movement is essential to the quest for a new system of international relations. We do not align ourselves to wars, to terrorism, to injustice, to inequality, to double standards. We align ourselves to peace and to justice." The Vice President explains during the opening session, "the concepts of limited sovereignty, humanitarian intervention, preventive war and regime change are fascist; they are not modern theories designed to defend freedom and combat terrorism. 'Human safety' and 'the responsibility to protect' are concepts which conceal the intention to encroach upon the sovereignty and do away with the independence of poor nations - never, of course, of powerful countries." The Cuban official maintains, "today's international financial organizations have been discredited and are unable to understand and address our problems. These organizations must be abolished and new ones, which seek to do away with hunger and not the hungry, must take their place." "The United Nations must be reformed and transformed into a real instrument for cooperation and peace, an organization that can realize the guiding principles enshrined in its Charter. The Security Council must broaden its membership, modify its working methods, make its deliberations |
