U. S. Hands Off the Mideast! Cuba Speaks Out at the United Nations

By: Fidel Castro and Ricardo Alarcón and Mary-Alice Waters

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Synopsis: Failure to attain a political solution would be a defeat for humanity. For every life lost on the battlefields of the Arab Persian Gulf, a thousand persons will die of hunger in the Third World. Such a fate would be unavoidable. Fidel Castro. Is it really the need to promote respect for the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of states that motivates the United States? Or is it the ambition of the United States to intervene and dominate the Middle East? Ricardo Alarcon. Since the onset of the crisis in the Middle East that began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, only one world power Cuba has consistently spoken out against Washington's accelerating war preparations in the region and the horrible consequences entailed for the great majority of humanity. This book contains the statements by Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Ricardo Alarcon and President Fidel Castro as the crisis has unfolded, together with each of the resolutions approved by the UN Security Council. In their statements, the Cuban leaders rebut the pretexts and arguments used by Washington to justify its unilateral acts of aggression. This is indispensable reading for all those concerned about the U.S. government's march toward war.