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Cuba describes as scandalous and gross Bush’s conduct in the UN

UNITED NATIONS, September 27 (PL).—Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque described the conduct of U.S. President George W. Bush in the UN General Assembly as scandalous and gross.

Using coarse language and an arrogant tone, Bush insulted and threatened a dozen countries and gave categorical and authoritative orders to the General Assembly, Pérez stated.

Pérez Roque criticized Bush for delivering qualifications and judgments on some 20 countries “with an arrogance never seen in this auditorium.”

It was a shameful spectacle, the delirium tremens of the world gendarme. The inebriation of the imperial power, seasoned with all the mediocrity and cynicism of those who threaten with wars in which they know their life is not at stake, he stressed.

The minister of foreign affairs said that the U.S. president “has no right to judge another sovereign nation on this planet.”

“Having powerful nuclear weapons does not give him any right over the rights of the peoples of the other 191 countries represented here,” he affirmed.

Pérez Roque noted that the determination and courage of the peoples at the hour of defending their rights should not be underestimated, because what counts is not the power of cannons but the justice of the ideas fought for.

“The bellicose and threatening president (Bush) should have learnt that at this height,” he observed.

The Cuban foreign minister pointed out that the U.S. leader spoke of democracy, but is lying, because he reached the White House via fraud and deception.

He is responsible for the death of 600,000 civilians in Iraq, authorized the torture on the Guantánamo base – illegally occupied Cuban territory – and in Abu Ghraib, and is an accomplice of the kidnapping and disappearing of people, the secret flights and the clandestine prisons,” he stated.

Bush spoke of the battle against terrorism, but has guaranteed total impunity for the most abominable terrorist groups who, from Miami, Florida, have perpetrated horrendous crimes against the Cuban people, Pérez Roque concluded.