{الفكر القومي العربي} Raul Castro's message (NAM)

>  > Cuban President Raul Castro Sends Message to NAM Summit  >  >  HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 31 (ACN) Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message   > to the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, underway in Iran. The   > message, which was conveyed to the summit by Cuban First   > Vice-president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, expressed the wish for a   > successful Iranian leadership of the Movement over the next three   > years.  >  >  Today we are facing the most serious and complex economic, social,   > political, environmental and moral crisis ever posed on the human   > species. Our nations are once again the main victims of this crisis,   > the message reads.  >  >  Raul Castro referred to the increase of instability, speculation, the   > foreign debt, poverty, environmental degradation, inequalities and the   > gap between the North and the South. He said that fair and   > long-lasting solutions are not found, while decisions are being taken   > by a handful of states on the back of the international community.  >  >  The message also denounces the new interventionist doctrines and the   > manipulation of concepts related to the responsibility of protection   > and human security, which along with the change of regime policy and   > new NATO strategies foretell a new division of the world.  >  >  In his message, Raul Castro points out that Cuba opposes and will   > always oppose any action of force going contrary to international law   > and the UN Charter.  >  >  The message conveyed the call by Cuba on the Non-Aligned Movement for   > Unity and for faithfulness to the movements founding principles and   > to the Declaration of Principles and Objectives, and the role of the   > Non-Aligned amidst the current international situation.  >  >  The promotion of peace, solidarity, social justice and sustainable   > development constitutes the only way to secure the future, read the   > document.  >  >  The message, read by Machado Ventura, stressed Cubas support of the   > cause of the Palestinian people and their inalienable right to   > self-determination in an independent state, with eastern Jerusalem as   > its capital city.  >  >  Cuba firmly backs the legitimate right of Puerto Rico to independence   > and the claim by Argentina of its sovereignty over the Malvinas   > Islands (The Falklands), read the message.  >  >  Cuba opposes the unsustainable production and consumption models of   > developed societies, which are progressively being transferred to   > South nations, the document points out and adds that the island favors   > a new world order in the fields of information and communications, in   > which history is no longer written or interpreted from the perspective   > of those powerful ones, or where the most irrational consumerism is   > not promoted.  >  >  Cuba also insists in the necessity to deeply transform the United   > Nations and democratize the Security Council, so that it represents   > all nations.  >  >  The message makes it clear that Cuba will keep firm in its defense of   > the achievements of the Cuban people and the improvement of its social   > system, without any foreign impositions.  >  >  The Non-Aligned Movement is more necessary now than ever before.   > Challenges are big, but our determination must overcome, the message   > read.  >  KOMINFORM  http://www.kominform.eu    

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