CUBA: 'UN hijacked'

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The United Nations General Assembly has been "completely turned, its main aim kidnapped", president of Cuba's National Assembly Ricardo Alarcon said on September 9, in a speech read by Cuban ambassador to the UN Orlando Requeijo. Alarcon was denied a visa by US authorities to attend the Second World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in New York, which began on September 7. "We hope for a new world of justice, solidarity and freedom, but we are capable of conquering it or leaving chaos and death for future generations", said Alarcon. "Those who threaten the whole world in the name of a hypocritical campaign against terrorism have been protecting confessed Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in their own territory for six months." At the same time, Alarcon said: "The US is holding five real anti-terrorist fighters in maximum security jails, despite a US Appeal Court decision to overturn the judicial farce fabricated by the US government."

From Green Left Weekly, September 14, 2005.
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