[R-G] UN Adopts Cuba-Sponsored Resolution against Israel

[Anthony Fenton]

http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2009/0112israelresolution.htm

  UN Adopts Cuba-Sponsored Resolution against Israel

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 12 (acn) The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) today  
passed a Cuba-sponsored resolution condemning Israel for its  
aggression against Gaza; Cuba presented the document as Chair of the  
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

The Islamic Conference and the Arab and African Groups, which belong  
to the United Nations, backed the Cuban condemnation of Tel Aviv,  
which was passed with 33 votes in favor, one against and 13 abstentions.

Canada opposed the document, Germany abstained, along the rest of  
European Union members at the Human Rights Council, as well as  
Cameroon, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Ukraine, Japan, South Korea and  
Switzerland.

The United States is not a member of the HRC, which is made up of 45  
nations.

Some of the countries that made the majority backing the resolution  
included Russia, China, Brazil and Argentina, according to a report by  
Prensa Latina news agency.

The document denounces the military aggression by the Zionist regime  
against the Gaza Strip, which has claimed over 900 Palestinian lives;  
it also has systematically violated the human rights of the  
Palestinian people and has destroyed the infrastructure of such a  
small territory.

The resolution also recommends the deployment of international  
observers to investigate the atrocious act committed by the invading  
army.

NAM had recently accused Israel at the alternate UN headquarters in  
Geneva, of practicing a ruthless military aggression against Gaza,  
which does not discriminate civilians from combatants, or mosques,  
schools and hospitals.