UNITED NATIONS, Feb.6 (NNN-Prensa Latina): Cuba has defended the spirit of solidarity among the neediest countries in the developing world and called for the promotion of fair and humane societies in each state.
?Societies that guarantee a more equitable distribution of national wealth and prevent it ending up in the coffers of multinational corporations and large banks in the north are what we need,? the permanent representative of Cuba, Pedro Nunez Mosquera told a UN commission that tracks Social Summit in Copenhagen in 1995.
He denounced injustice and exclusion resulting from the current international order which increasingly impacted the marginalization of a significant portion of southern nations.
He argued that the situation causes hunger, extreme poverty, illiteracy, poor health and premature death continue to be a constant in a significant number of countries.
He warned that neoliberal globalization and the economic crisis would worsen if the situation is not addressed and rectified.
He said it will only be progress in social integration if the powerful nations fulfill their commitments to contribute 0.7 percent of gross domestic product for official development assistance.
He noted that developing countries use a fifth of their exports to pay “services of a foreign debt that so many times we have paid.
He also called for greater openness in trade and greater acceleration in the transfer of advanced technologies on mutually agreed terms.
Industrialized countries have the resources to assist development of our peoples. What is lacking is the political will to do so, thereby perpetuating inequality and social exclusion, he said.
He also highlighted the socio-economic transformations carried out in Cuba since 1959 to build a just and caring society, despite the threats, attacks and the U.S. blockade.
He outlined advances in the fields of health and free education and high rates of life expectancy (over 77 years) mortality rate (4.8 per thousand live births), primary education (100 percent) and secondary (99).
He noted that Cuba continues to work with other developing countries by sending thousands of doctors, health personnel, teachers, sports coaches and other specialists.
In that sense, he explained that after the earthquake in Haiti Cuban doctors there have treated more than 35,000 people and made over 3,000 surgeries.
-NNN-PRENSA LATINA
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