Statement by the National Assembly of the People’s Power (on Israel's raid on humanitarian ship).

[Billy Burnett]

Statement by the National Assembly of the People’s Power
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/features/may2010/parliament-statement060510.html

Several days have passed since the Israeli Army launched its premeditated and criminal attack against the fleet that was taking to the Gaza Strip -a Palestinian territory subjected to a cruel and inhuman military blockade- much needed humanitarian help, in a supreme gesture of solidarity. Governments, parliaments and institutions from many parts of the world have renounced the assassination perpetrated, and have demanded that the international community to express its strongest condemnation of this action carried out by the Israeli government.

The statement by the UN Security Council, in spite of regretting what has happened and asking for an impartial investigation, does not vigorously condemn Israel and does not mention the need to put an end, unconditionally, to the prolonged siege laid to the Gaza Strip. The Commission for International Relations of the National Assembly of the People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba considers that the only solution possible is that the Israeli government immediately puts an end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip and that the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to create an independent State in its legitimate territories prevails. It is urgent to prevent, by way of the most determined action of the international community, serious crimes like these remaining unpunished, and that the use of time-wasting strategies on the part of Israel and its allies makes it possible to maintain, and even intensify in the future, the current and unsustainable situation of the Palestinian people.

Commission for International Relations of the National Assembly of the People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba.