Cuba Calls for Intensifying Efforts to Prevent any Attack on Syria

PARIS- Cuba has renewed its rejection of interference in Syria’s internal affairs and warned against U.S. repeated threats to the country.

Cuban Education Minister Ena Elsa Velazquez said in her speech on Friday at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) General Conference in Paris that keen efforts should be intensified to prevent any attack on Syria and preserve peace in the entire world.

She urged UNESCO to contribute to preventing other wars and to make science, culture and education the weapons that help building a better world, “as these weapons include no bombs to kill innocent people and destroy schools and museums”.

She also urged the United States to release the four Cuban prisoners from the American jails, stressing that those captives were unfairly imprisoned only for fought terrorism.

In October, Cuba’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations Oscar Leon reiterated his country’s call for attaining a political solution to the crisis in Syria and for respecting the country’s sovereignty, independence and territorial safety.

He also condemned some countries’ intervention aiming to destabilize Syria through providing all forms of support to the armed terrorist groups and mercenaries fighting the Syrian state and killing the Syrian people.

H. Mustafa