HAVANA.-Bruno Rodríguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, heads the Cuban delegation that is currently participating in the high-level segment of the 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which is being held in Geneva , Switzerland and in which the largest of the Antilles will condemn the US blockade against the Cuban people.

 In the important forum made up of 47 states, the Antillean delegation will underline its commitment to human rights and its opposition to them being manipulated for political purposes and used with double standards.

 The Cuban Foreign Ministry said Rodriguez plans to speak before the Council and the Conference on Disarmament, as well as hold talks with senior United Nations officials and heads of delegations attending the event.

 Until 2019, Cuba was a member of the Human Rights Council after fulfilling the two periods of mandates allowed in this multilateral mechanism. In 2016, when it was chosen for the second time to integrate it, it was the Latin American country that received the most votes.

 In its management as part of the Commission, the Island has promoted the recognition of social, economic, cultural and collective human rights.

 The Human Rights Commission is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly that emerged in 2006 in substitution of the old Commission created in 1946 whose management became very manipulated by the Western view of human rights.

 Since 2018, the United States withdrew from this global consultation mechanism.