Cuba hails U.S. absence from U.N. rights panel
…”Today is a particularly symbolic day. Cuba is a founding member of the Human Rights Council, and the United States is not,” Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said. “The absence of the United States is the defeat of lies; it is the moral punishment for the haughtiness of an empire.
“The election entailed a demanding assessment. Each one got what they deserved,” Perez Roque added.
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