Cuba slammed the US and other Western states yesterday for shielding Israel from sanctions for its “crimes against the Palestinian people.”
In a UN general assembly session the Cuban delegates criticised the security council’s “passivity in relation to the zionists’ crimes against the Palestinian people” and said it wouldn’t turn a “blind eye” as certain countries had.
They called on the UN to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state.
The Cubans spoke out after UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon failed to condemn Israel’s “illegal actions and crimes against Palestine” on Tuesday, the annual UN day of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Cuba co-sponsored United Nations resolution 3379 in 1975, declaring that “zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
That resolution was revoked in 1991, but Cuba and 24 other states including Vietnam, Iran and Libya tried to keep it on the books.
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