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| 120 countries participated in the NAM meeting in Tehran |
By www.hamsayeh.net, September 1, 2012
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 movement’s 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 Cuba’s
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.
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