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14:26, December 11, 2008 |
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on Wednesday called for the closure of the prison for terrorism suspects at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo and there turn of the land on which it was built to Cuba's control.
The demand was made during a forum celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Convention Palace in Havana.
Perez Roque also condemned the "paradoxical" fight of the United States against terrorism.
"It tried to legalize the aggression and military occupation and committed serious human rights violations. It tried to justify economic embargoes and coercions and tried to impose an economic, political and social model upon other countries in the interests of the powerful," Perez Roque said.
He also urged an end to the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba, which has last for almost half a century.
The U.S. government has been criticized by media and human right groups for holding terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo prison without officially charging them and for using harsh interrogation tactics on the detainees.
Source:Xinhua
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