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The Cuban foreign minister on Thursday blasted a proposed UN resolution to censure his country for its human-rights record and said Havana would never agree to a visit by a UN human-rights monitor.
Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque accused the United States of pressuring Uruguay to propose a UN resolution calling for the communist country to promote fundamental liberties for its people and to let a UN human-rights representative visit the island to help officials comply with the resolution.
The UN monitor would be doing the United States’ bidding, Roque alleged, because the proposal was Washington’s idea.
The United States denied it was responsible for the resolution introduced at the annual UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva.
