Cuba Condemned Foreign Military Intervention in Libya

By Redaction AHORA / redaccion@ahora.cu / Monday, 21 March 2011 09:53


Cuba has strongly condemned the foreign military intervention in Libya´s domestic affairs. Conflicts should be resolved through dialogue and negotiation, and not by the use of military force, underlines a statement issued by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

The UN Security Council gave in to pressures by some Western powers that were seeking to create the conditions that would lead to the aggression, which is a blatant manipulation of the UN Charter.

However, Resolution 1973 that was passed on Thursday does not authorize any attack against the Libyan territory. This is a violation of the international law, the release stresses.

The Western powers launching the attacks against the North African nation -it adds- are causing death, injury and suffering to innocent people. Some of these countries are responsible for the death of over a million civilians in Iraq and more than 70,000 in Afghanistan. They call it collateral damage.

They are also the accomplices of the crimes against the Palestinian people.

Cuba supports the inalienable right of the Libyan people to exercise their self-determination without foreign intervention. It repudiates the death of civilians there and everywhere, and endorses the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of the resources of that nation, the statement concludes. / PL