Cuba denounces 'US radio and TV aggression'

US international broadcasting was the focus of attention at the United Nations yesterday, during a debate on information.

The Cuban ambassador to the UN, Rodrigo Malmierca, took the opportunity to denounce the Radio and TV Martí broadcasts beamed into Cuba by the US. The ambassador called the broadcasts illegal, and said that they "encourage illegal immigration and civil disobedience and blatantly distort the country's reality."

Malmierca said further that the broadcasts are a "crude aggression" against his country, on which Washington spends millions of dollars every year, in total disregard of UN General Assembly resolutions, international law and International Telecommunication Union regulations.

The Cuban ambassador said the US Republican Administration of President George W Bush has resorted to various media in this radio-electronic war, as part of its "obsessive, unhealthy policy" to destroy the Cuban Revolution. "We will not allow our sovereignty to be ridden roughshod over, especially by absurd US pro-annexation ambitions," he said.

Source: Prensa Latina, Media Network

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