Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, June 28 – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement reiterating that Cuba does not and will not recognize any moral or legal authority of the Organization of American States (OAS), nor of any of its officials and subsidiary or autonomous bodies.
For months, U.S. Secretary of State Marcos waged a campaign to position Rosa María Payá Acevedo, a well-known defender of the blockade against Cuba, as an impartial human rights expert on the OAS's Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), narrowly achieving her election through economic pressure and blackmail.
However, her history of supporting coups d'état, promoting military interventions, and ignoring international norms demonstrated her lack of suitability.
This maneuver, part of an anti-Cuban obsession, seeks to instrumentalize the IACHR to attack Cuba's medical cooperation, even demanding confidential information from OAS member states, violating their sovereignty.
Due to its importance, we transmit the full statement published on the official Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
US Pressure and Blackmail Impose Mercenary on the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
For months, the United States Secretary of State unleashed an operation to attempt to transform a prominent member of his roster of salaried defenders of the blockade and aggression against Cuba into an impartial human rights expert.
Despite the dignified, courageous, and legitimate position of numerous governments in Latin America, multiple pressures and threats, including the blackmail that the United States would cut budgets of cooperation programs in the hemisphere, narrowly led to the election of the notorious mercenary Rosa María Payá Acevedo as Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
However, the efforts of the Secretary of State, who made it a priority of his department to clean up the candidate’s record, did not erase the shameful record of the new Commissioner showing her support for coups, spreading lies, and promotes military interventions and economic war policies in the region.
As confirmed by the Independent Panel for Evaluating Candidacies for the Inter-American Human Rights System, Payá Acevedo "demonstrated limited knowledge of human rights standards, jurisprudence, or international doctrine," and her political activity "may call into question the appearance of independence in the judgment of a reasonable observer."
The Center for Economic and Policy Research issued a special report on this candidate in which it stated that "Ms. Payá's public record demonstrates a repeated disregard for human rights and international law in this area" and that she spread "disinformation about the governments of OAS member states."
The Secretary of State, with his delusional anti-Cuban obsession and contempt for Our America, has succeeded in imposing one of his favorite employees to defend coercive policies that are universally rejected.
Facts like this demonstrate that hemispheric relations need a profound transformation.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is being used right now by the United States Secretary of State as part of his immoral campaign against Cuba's medical cooperation. To this end, he has unprecedentedly required all OAS member states to respond to a detailed questionnaire about the agreements they have or have had with Cuba regarding cooperation in the area of ??health, which many consider an unprecedented request and a violation of the sovereignty of states.
Cuba reiterates that it does not recognize, nor will it recognize, any moral or legal authority of the OAS or any of its officials and subsidiary or autonomous bodies. (Text and photo: ACN)
