Cuba rejected in the United Nations the claim of using the fight against transnational organized crime as a pretext to impose the concept of limited sovereignty. It was expressed that these attempts try to overstate the phenomenon on the grounds that affects the stability and regional or international peace and argued that this treatment is not for the Security Council, reported Prensa Latina.

Cuba's position was exposed to the General Assembly by its Permanent Representative to the UN, Pedro Nunez Mosquera, speaking at a high level meeting on Transnational Organized Crime.

The diplomat said that all countries, which are responsible of their economic power, land area or number of inhabitants, are vulnerable to different forms of crime. Among them mentioned "the shameful financial fraud scandals have threatened the essence of the international financial system, human trafficking, smuggling of migrants, money laundering and cyber crime.

For the Cuban Ambassador, combating such acts, particularly the Transnational Organized Crime, passes first through the struggle against underdevelopment and the establishment of an international economic order more just and equitable.

He also stressed the importance of international cooperation in that battle, on the basis of full respect for sovereignty, in keeping with national laws and territorial integrity of states.
However, he warned against attempts to use the issue in order to impose the concept of limited sovereignty and rejected the listing of countries that allegedly spurious commit violations related to transnational organized crime.

In this regard he repudiated those developed by the United States with clear political purposes and handling of issues such as terrorism, human and drug trafficking.

"These mechanisms operating outside the UN system and no more than instruments of political pressure to punish governments that do not meet U.S. guidelines," he said.
At the same time, he said, tries to justify unilateral sanctions policies, such as the blockade against Cuba, are legally and ethically unacceptable against international law.

Nunez Mosquera highlighted the work of Cuba in crime prevention through comprehensive programs of economic, social and cultural development and systematic improvement of its legislation.

He noted that the Caribbean island has an impressive track record in confronting the crimes of greater impact, such as international terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, piracy and human trafficking, among others.

However, reported that due to the Cuban Adjustment Act in force in the U.S., Cuba faces migratory complex situations in which unscrupulous individuals make human trafficking a lucrative business.

In this regard, he highlighted the efforts and willingness to Cuba to combat this phenomenon and noted that as part of the migration agreements with the United States just made a round of migration to assess compliance with these conventions.

"We estimate that we have made progress on this issue, as it has achieved a fruitful exchange to establish more effective mechanisms of cooperation in countering human smuggling," he said.

But, he added, the problem will not be removed or it may reach a migration legal, safe and orderly between the two countries until the cause disappears and the strong incentive that is the Cuban Adjustment Act itself and the wet foot-dry foot policy.

The U.S. immigration policy toward Cuba is the main stimulus to the illegal departures from Cuba and human trafficking, he reiterated.

He explained that this policy allows automatic admission in U.S. territory of Cuban citizens who arrive illegally, regardless of the ways and means, including the use of violence and risk to the lives of people by unscrupulous

Later, the Cuban ambassador recalled that Cuba has been the victim of terrorist attacks carried out by international criminal organizations, with many casualties and huge economic losses.

In contrast, he said his country would "never allowed or allow use of its territory for carrying out, planning or financing of terrorist acts against any other state."

By contrast, said the cooperation shown by Cuba is not reciprocated by the U.S. government, "which protects confessed terrorists who have acted or act with impunity against Cuba for five decades.

At that point, he highlighted the case of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, mastermind of the bombing in flight of a Cuban civil aircraft and other crimes against Cuba.

Meanwhile, he said, “five young Cuban patriots are unjustly imprisoned in U.S. jails for fighting terrorism precisely against Cuba. They must be released immediately."

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