[NYTr] At UN, Cuba Denounces New US Maneuver in Posada Case

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)
http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles


At UN, Cuba Denounces New US Maneuver in Posada Carriles Case

Havana, Nov 15 (acn) Cuba affirmed on Wednesday at the United Nations 
(UN) that the appeal filed by the US government before a US Federal 
Court last November 6th regarding the release of international 
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles constitutes a new public relations 
maneuver.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the island's ambassador to the 
international body in New York said that this action was "only a smoke 
screen to hide the culpability of the self-confessed terrorist".

During a discussion of the topic 'Information of the Presidents of 
Subsidiary Bodies' of the UN Security Council, Malmierca denounced that 
Washington insists on trying to approach the case as a mere migratory 
offense.

"Thus, they guarantee the definitive freedom for the terrorist and the 
elimination of all charges against him," the Cuban ambassador noted.

In this respect, he stressed that Cuba once again appeals to the UN 
Security Council to denounce and condemn the complicity and 
responsibility of the US government in the release of this criminal.

Malmierca added that right now "Washington's spokespeople are trying to 
distort the reality and to present the Posada Carriles case as a 
bilateral conflict between Cuba and the United States or between the 
United Sates and Venezuela."

The Cuban ambassador recalled that last October 6th marked the 41st 
anniversary of the mid-air bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed all 
73 people onboard off the coast of Barbados, a terrorist action that 
was organized by Posada Carriles.

He also recalled that on that occasion, when Cuba asked the UN Security 
Council to take action, it did nothing and the draft resolution then 
submitted by Cuba was not even taken into consideration.

"On that occasion, the US representative during that session of the 
Security Council said it was a waste of time," said Malmierca.

The island's diplomat noted that the Cuban government demands that 
Washington extradites Posada Carriles to Venezuela or that it tries him 
on US territory for his terrorist crimes.

Malmierca concluded saying that another terrorist who was also a 
mastermind of the 1976 mid-air bombing of the Cuban airliner, Orlando 
Bosch, walks the streets of Miami as a free man and makes public 
statements boasting of his vast record of terrorist attacks against 
Cuba.