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• 03 / 22 / 2010

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Cuba demanded at the United Nations the end of the double standard and of all selective practices or laws encouraging trafficking in human beings and that are against international law.

It also condemned the selective and politically motivated unilateral assessments that some powerful states make on the performance of the rest of the countries with regard to alien smuggling, the Granma newspaper reports.

Cuba’s permanent representative before the United Nations, Pedro Nuñez, stated the island’s stance during the debate of a project of the Global Plan of Action to prevent trafficking in human beings, try traffickers and protect and help victims.

Nuñez recalled that, for many years, his country has suffered the so-called Adjustment Act adopted by the United States, which he described as criminal, immoral and discriminatory, the only one of its kind in the world.

The Cuban ambassador pointed out that one of the direct consequences of that Act has been the encouragement of trafficking in human beings and therefore the death of people and the perpetration of a large number of criminal offenses.

In this regard, he expressed that there won’t be any definitive solution to the issue of trafficking in human beings as long as norms of this kind continue being implemented.

The diplomat also expressed Cuba’s support for the adoption of a Plan of Global Action against trafficking in human beings on the part of the General Assembly, by way of an open, clear and inclusive process and with the contribution of all states, on equal terms.
 
Source: ACN