Inclusion, cooperation, social justice, human dignity and respect for diversity are the principles defended by Cuba as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), said President Miguel Díaz-Canel today.

Those who do not believe in those principles, do not want us with a voice in the Council either, stressed the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the Republic in his official Twitter account.

"Inclusion, cooperation, social justice, human dignity, respect for diversity, are the principles defended by #Cuba as a member of the #UN Human Rights Council. Those who do not believe in those principles, do not want us with a voice in the Council either."

Díaz-Canel shares a material from the Granma newspaper, official organ of the PCC, on Cuba's denunciation of the lie resulting from the annual report released by the U.S. Government, in which Washington expresses concern about the respect for human rights on the island.

The head of state referred to the current popular consultation and subsequent referendum to be held in the country on the new Family Code, which he described as inclusive, as it recognizes plurality and takes into account the human rights of all in the family sphere.

It is a Code that is possible in democracy and that strengthens our will to protect human rights, he said.

"It is in #Cuba where an inclusive Code of Families is submitted to popular consultation and referendum, which recognizes plurality and protects the rights of all in the family sphere, a Code possible in democracy and that strengthens our will to protect human rights."

In another tweet, Díaz-Canel questioned the attacks by U.S. officials against his country in relation to human rights, and warned that the United States is the biggest violator of such rights.

He pointed to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the U.S. government for more than six decades, intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, a hostile policy considered a violation of the human rights of Cubans and Americans.

"What human rights do officials of successive U.S. governments talk and write about, when that country is the biggest violator of such rights? What rights do they talk about while they justify a criminal blockade against an entire people?"

In October 2020 Cuba was elected to the Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body composed of 47 member states responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights in the world.

The Caribbean nation conducts itself in the Human Rights Council with its own constructive voice, with its experience as a developing country advocating dialogue and cooperation, contrary to punitive approaches and selectivity, in favor of the promotion and protection of all human rights for all.

Cuba is a founding member of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN), which succeeded the former Commission on Human Rights in 2006, and occupies a seat on the body, among the eight reserved for the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States.