UNITED NATIONS, September 26.-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrÃguez today insisted before the General Assembly that this organization must recognize Palestine as a free and independent state and oppose the Security Council or the United States government's attempt to use its veto of the resolution, Telesur reported.
"The General Assembly has the inescapable moral, political and legal obligation to guarantee the recognition of an independent Palestinian state with its pre-1967 borders and East Jerusalem as the capital, as a full member of the United Nations. It must do so with or without the Security Council, with or without a United States veto, with or without new peace negotiations," he specified.
He also reiterated that the Palestinian people have been the victims of continual Israeli attacks, supported by the United States which, given its arms merchant strategy, sells Israel the weapons it needs to sustain this aggression.::::::::
Cuba, which has a small Jewish community, likewise condemns the historic injustices of anti-Semitism, the crime against humanity which was the Holocaust, and also recognizes the Israeli state's right to exist. "Our people harbor only fraternal sentiments for the Israeli people, who are also victims of this conflict," he said.
He repeated that the U.S. is obliged to "cease its continual vetoing of Security Council resolutions to protect Palestinian citizens."
In relation to attacks perpetuated by imperialists forces on Libya, RodrÃguez warned that "a new model of regime change" launched by the United States and NATO in Libya could be applied to Latin American countries who do not submit to Washington's interests. At the same time, he insisted that the UN intervene to prevent a military attack on Syria.
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