Embassy
of the Republic of Cuba
New Delhi, January 14th, 2012
Dear friends,
The Embassy of the Republic of Cuba has the pleasure to enclose here a
comrade Fidel Castro’s Reflection:
WORLD PEACE HANGING BY A THREAD
Due to the importance of the information contained in
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Press Section
Cuban Embassy
Eduardo E. Iglesias Quintana
Minister Counsellor
Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in India
tel: 2924 2467/68, 2924 2370 fax: :2924 2369
Mobile: 9899491822
email: cancilleria@vsnl.net; web: http://embacuba.cubaminrex.cu/indiaing
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Reflexiones del compañero Fidel
WORLD PEACE HANGING BY A THREAD
Yesterday I had the satisfaction of having a pleasant conversation with
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I had not seen him since 2006, more than five years
ago, when he visited our country to participate in the 14th Summit of the
Non-Aligned Movement of Countries in Havana. During the summit, Cuba was
elected for the second time as president of the organization for a
three-year term.
I had become gravely ill on July 26, 2006, a month and a half prior to the
summit, and could barely sit up in bed. Many of the most distinguished
leaders who participated in the event were kind enough to visit me. Chavez
and Evo visited me several times. One afternoon four visitors came by whom I
will always remember: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; an old friend,
Abdelaziz Buteflika, the president of Algeria; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the
president of Iran; and the vice minister of Foreign Affairs and current
Foreign Minister of China, Yang Jiechi, on behalf of the leader of the
Communist Party and the president of China, Hu Jintao. It was really an
important time for me; I was in the midst of intense physiotherapy on my
right hand that I had seriously injured when I fell in Santa Clara.
With all four I spoke about some of the difficulties facing the world at the
time; problems that have become progressively more complex.
During our meeting yesterday, I noted that the Iranian president was
absolutely calm and tranquil, completely unconcerned about the Yankee
threats and, fully confident in the capacity of his people to confront any
aggression and in the effectiveness of their arms —which, in large part,
they produce themselves— to inflict an unpayable price on its aggressors.
In reality, we hardly spoke about the topic of war. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was
focused on the ideas he had presented at the Main Hall of the University of
Havana during his conference on the struggle of humankind: “Moving towards
reaching and achieving peace, security, respect and human dignity as a
fundamental desire of all human beings throughout history.”
I am convinced that Iran will not commit any rash actions that might
contribute to setting off a war. If a war were to be unleashed, it would
inevitably be completely as a result of the recklessness and congenital
irresponsibility of the Yankee Empire.
I believe that the political situation surrounding Iran and the associated
risks of a nuclear war that involves us all —regardless of whether one
possess nuclear weapons— are extremely delicate because they threaten the
very existence of our species. The Middle East has become the most troubled
region on the planet, the same region that produces the energy resources
vital for the world’s economy.
The destructive power and the mass sufferings caused by some of the weapons
used in World War Two led to a strong movement to ban weapons such as
asphyxiating gas and others. Nevertheless, conflicting interests and the
huge profits made by arms manufacturers led to the production of crueler and
more destructive weapons; modern technology has now added the means and
material to build weapons that if used in a world war would lead to
extinction.
I support the opinion, undoubtedly shared by all those with a basic sense of
responsibility, that no country big or small has the right to possess
nuclear weapons.
They never should have been used to attack two defenseless cities such as
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and irradiating with horrible and
long-lasting effects hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, in a
country that had already been militarily defeated.
If fascism indeed forced the allied nations against Nazism to compete with
this enemy of humanity in the production of such weapons, once the war ended
and the United Nations was created, the first duty of this organization
should have been to prohibit nuclear weapons without exception.
However, the United States, the strongest and richest power, forced the rest
of the world to follow its lead. Today, they have hundreds of satellites
that spy and monitor the entire world from outer space. Their naval, air and
land forces are equipped with thousands of nuclear weapons; and they control
the world’s finances and investments at their whim via the International
Monetary Fund.
Analyzing the history of each Latin American nation, from Mexico to
Patagonia, by way of Santo Domingo and Haiti, one can observe that each and
every country, without exception, have suffered for 200 years, from the
beginning of the 19th century up until today. And, in one way or another,
they are increasingly suffering the worst crimes that power and force can
commit against the rights of a people. Brilliant Latin American writers are
emerging in an increasing number. One of them, Eduardo Galeano, author of
the book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a
Continent that describes the aforementioned, has just been invited to open
the prestigious Casa de Las Americas Awards as a recognition to his
outstanding body of work.
Events happen incredibly fast; but technologies report them to the public
even faster. On any given day, like today, important news comes out a
dizzying pace. A cable report dated from January 11 states: “The Danish
presidency of the European Union confirmed on Wednesday that a new series of
more severe European sanctions against Iran, because of its nuclear program,
will be discussed on January 23. The new sanctions will not only target the
oil industry but also the Central Bank.”
During a meeting with international journalists, Danish Foreign Minister
Villy Soevndal said that “We will increase sanctions against the oil
industry in addition to sanctions against financial structures.” This
clearly demonstrates that, in order to impede nuclear proliferation, Israel
can go on accumulating hundreds of nuclear warheads while Iran is not
allowed to produce 20% enriched uranium.
Another article, from a respected British news agency, states that “China
gave no hint on Wednesday of giving ground to U.S. demands to curb Iran's
oil revenues, rejecting Washington's sanctions on Tehran as overstepping …”
The sheer tranquility with which the United States and civilized Europe
carry out this campaign with incredible and systematic acts of terrorism is
enough to shock anybody. Just look at these lines reported by another
important European news agency: “The murder on Wednesday of Iranian nuclear
specialist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan [a scientist at the Natanz nuclear plant]
was the fourth attack to kill a leading scientist in the country in almost
exactly two years.”
On January 12, 2010: “Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at
Tehran University is killed when a booby-trapped motorcycle explodes outside
his home in the capital. “
On November 29, 2010: “Two attacks target leading Iranian nuclear scientists
on the same day. Majid Shahriari, a key member of Iran’s Atomic Energy
Agency, is killed in Tehran by a limpet bomb attached to his car. His
colleague Fereydoon Abbasi Davani is also targeted by a bomb attached to his
car, but escapes.” The car was parked in front of the Shahid Beheshti
University in Tehran where both men worked as professors.
On July 23, 2011: “Gunmen shoot dead Dariush Rezaei-Nejad, a senior
scientist who is reportedly associated with the defense ministry, and wound
his wife as they waited for their child outside a Tehran kindergarten.”
On January 11, 2012 —the same day that Ahmadinejad travelled from Nicaragua
to Cuba to give a conference at the University of Havana—, scientist Mostafa
Ahmadi Roshan, “a deputy director at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility,
is killed in a car bomb blast outside the [Allameh Tabatabai] University in
east Tehran.” As in previous years “Iran once again accused the United
States and Israel.”
The killings represent a systematic and selective slaughter of brilliant
Iranian scientists. I have read articles by known Israeli sympathizers who
write about crimes carried out by Israeli intelligence services in
cooperation with the United States and NATO as if they were the most normal
occurrence.
At the same time, Moscow news agencies report that “Russia warned that in
Syria a similar scenario is developing as to that in Libya, and added that
this time the attack will be launched from neighboring Turkey.
“The secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said the
West wants to ‘punish Damascus not as much for repressing the opposition,
but because it is unwilling to sever ties with Tehran.’”
"…NATO members and some Persian Gulf states, operating according to the
Libya scenario, intend to move from indirect intervention in Syrian affairs
to direct military intervention…This time the main strikes forces will not
be provided by France, the U.K. or Italy, but possibly by neighboring
Turkey."
“Washington and Ankara are now assumed to be negotiating a “no-fly” zone
over Syria, where Syrian armed insurgents can be trained and concentrated,
added Patrushev."
News is not only coming out of Iran and the Middle East, but also from other
parts of Central Asia near the Middle East. These reports show the great
complexity of the problems that can arise from this dangerous region.
The United States has been led by its contradictory and absurd imperial
policy to get involved in serious problems in countries such as Pakistan,
whose borders with Afghanistan were drawn up by the colonialists without
taking into account culture or ethnicities.
In Afghanistan, which defended its independence against English colonialism
for centuries, drug production has multiplied in the wake of the Yankee
invasion. Meanwhile, European soldiers, supported by drone airplanes and
armed with sophisticated US weapons, carry out deplorable massacres that
increase the people’s hatred and ward off any possibilities of peace. All
this and other dirty actions are also reported by Western news agencies.
“WASHINGTON, January 12, 2012 - US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called
the actions of four U.S. marines who urinated on corpses in Afghanistan
“utterly deplorable” The video of the act was circulated in the Internet.
"’I have seen the footage, and I find the behavior depicted in it utterly
deplorable…’
"’This conduct is entirely inappropriate for members of the United States
military and does not reflect the standards of values our armed forces are
sworn to uphold…’”
In reality, Panetta neither confirms nor denies the action, and anyone,
including the Secretary of Defense himself, may harbor doubt.
But it is also extremely inhumane that men, women and children, or an
Afghani combatant fighting against the foreign occupation, be murdered by
bombs dropped by drone planes. Another very serious incident: dozens of
Pakistani soldiers and officials who safeguarded the country’s borders have
been killed by these bombs.
Afghani President Karzai stated that the outrage committed against the
bodies was “simply inhumane.” He asked for the US government “to urgently
investigate the video and apply the most severe punishment to anyone found
guilty in this crime.”
Meanwhile Taliban spokespersons declared that “over the last ten years,
hundreds of similar acts have been carried out that were not reported…”
One even feels sorry for those soldiers, thousands of kilometers away from
their family, friends and country, sent to fight in countries that they
might not have even heard of during their school days, where they are
assigned the task of killing or dying to enrich transnational companies,
arms manufacturers and unscrupulous politicians who each year squander funds
needed to feed and educate the uncountable millions of hungry and illiterate
people around the world.
Many of these soldiers, victims of the trauma suffered, end up taking their
own lives.
Is it an exaggeration to say that world peace is hanging by a thread?
Fidel Castro Ruz
January 12, 2012
of the Republic of Cuba
New Delhi, January 14th, 2012
Dear friends,
The Embassy of the Republic of Cuba has the pleasure to enclose here a
comrade Fidel Castro’s Reflection:
WORLD PEACE HANGING BY A THREAD
Due to the importance of the information contained in
these documents they can be resent, copied or published.
The Embassy of Cuba invites you to send us your comments and
in case you are not interested in receiving information about Cuba, feel
free to tell us.
Best regards,
Press Section
Cuban Embassy
Eduardo E. Iglesias Quintana
Minister Counsellor
Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in India
tel: 2924 2467/68, 2924 2370 fax: :2924 2369
Mobile: 9899491822
email: cancilleria@vsnl.net; web: http://embacuba.cubaminrex.cu/indiaing
<http://www.antiterroristas.cu/>
<http://www.antiterroristas.cu/> <http://www.antiterroristas.cu/>
<http://www.antiterroristas.cu/> The Cuban Five will return!!!
Reflexiones del compañero Fidel
WORLD PEACE HANGING BY A THREAD
Yesterday I had the satisfaction of having a pleasant conversation with
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I had not seen him since 2006, more than five years
ago, when he visited our country to participate in the 14th Summit of the
Non-Aligned Movement of Countries in Havana. During the summit, Cuba was
elected for the second time as president of the organization for a
three-year term.
I had become gravely ill on July 26, 2006, a month and a half prior to the
summit, and could barely sit up in bed. Many of the most distinguished
leaders who participated in the event were kind enough to visit me. Chavez
and Evo visited me several times. One afternoon four visitors came by whom I
will always remember: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan; an old friend,
Abdelaziz Buteflika, the president of Algeria; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the
president of Iran; and the vice minister of Foreign Affairs and current
Foreign Minister of China, Yang Jiechi, on behalf of the leader of the
Communist Party and the president of China, Hu Jintao. It was really an
important time for me; I was in the midst of intense physiotherapy on my
right hand that I had seriously injured when I fell in Santa Clara.
With all four I spoke about some of the difficulties facing the world at the
time; problems that have become progressively more complex.
During our meeting yesterday, I noted that the Iranian president was
absolutely calm and tranquil, completely unconcerned about the Yankee
threats and, fully confident in the capacity of his people to confront any
aggression and in the effectiveness of their arms —which, in large part,
they produce themselves— to inflict an unpayable price on its aggressors.
In reality, we hardly spoke about the topic of war. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was
focused on the ideas he had presented at the Main Hall of the University of
Havana during his conference on the struggle of humankind: “Moving towards
reaching and achieving peace, security, respect and human dignity as a
fundamental desire of all human beings throughout history.”
I am convinced that Iran will not commit any rash actions that might
contribute to setting off a war. If a war were to be unleashed, it would
inevitably be completely as a result of the recklessness and congenital
irresponsibility of the Yankee Empire.
I believe that the political situation surrounding Iran and the associated
risks of a nuclear war that involves us all —regardless of whether one
possess nuclear weapons— are extremely delicate because they threaten the
very existence of our species. The Middle East has become the most troubled
region on the planet, the same region that produces the energy resources
vital for the world’s economy.
The destructive power and the mass sufferings caused by some of the weapons
used in World War Two led to a strong movement to ban weapons such as
asphyxiating gas and others. Nevertheless, conflicting interests and the
huge profits made by arms manufacturers led to the production of crueler and
more destructive weapons; modern technology has now added the means and
material to build weapons that if used in a world war would lead to
extinction.
I support the opinion, undoubtedly shared by all those with a basic sense of
responsibility, that no country big or small has the right to possess
nuclear weapons.
They never should have been used to attack two defenseless cities such as
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and irradiating with horrible and
long-lasting effects hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, in a
country that had already been militarily defeated.
If fascism indeed forced the allied nations against Nazism to compete with
this enemy of humanity in the production of such weapons, once the war ended
and the United Nations was created, the first duty of this organization
should have been to prohibit nuclear weapons without exception.
However, the United States, the strongest and richest power, forced the rest
of the world to follow its lead. Today, they have hundreds of satellites
that spy and monitor the entire world from outer space. Their naval, air and
land forces are equipped with thousands of nuclear weapons; and they control
the world’s finances and investments at their whim via the International
Monetary Fund.
Analyzing the history of each Latin American nation, from Mexico to
Patagonia, by way of Santo Domingo and Haiti, one can observe that each and
every country, without exception, have suffered for 200 years, from the
beginning of the 19th century up until today. And, in one way or another,
they are increasingly suffering the worst crimes that power and force can
commit against the rights of a people. Brilliant Latin American writers are
emerging in an increasing number. One of them, Eduardo Galeano, author of
the book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a
Continent that describes the aforementioned, has just been invited to open
the prestigious Casa de Las Americas Awards as a recognition to his
outstanding body of work.
Events happen incredibly fast; but technologies report them to the public
even faster. On any given day, like today, important news comes out a
dizzying pace. A cable report dated from January 11 states: “The Danish
presidency of the European Union confirmed on Wednesday that a new series of
more severe European sanctions against Iran, because of its nuclear program,
will be discussed on January 23. The new sanctions will not only target the
oil industry but also the Central Bank.”
During a meeting with international journalists, Danish Foreign Minister
Villy Soevndal said that “We will increase sanctions against the oil
industry in addition to sanctions against financial structures.” This
clearly demonstrates that, in order to impede nuclear proliferation, Israel
can go on accumulating hundreds of nuclear warheads while Iran is not
allowed to produce 20% enriched uranium.
Another article, from a respected British news agency, states that “China
gave no hint on Wednesday of giving ground to U.S. demands to curb Iran's
oil revenues, rejecting Washington's sanctions on Tehran as overstepping …”
The sheer tranquility with which the United States and civilized Europe
carry out this campaign with incredible and systematic acts of terrorism is
enough to shock anybody. Just look at these lines reported by another
important European news agency: “The murder on Wednesday of Iranian nuclear
specialist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan [a scientist at the Natanz nuclear plant]
was the fourth attack to kill a leading scientist in the country in almost
exactly two years.”
On January 12, 2010: “Massoud Ali Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at
Tehran University is killed when a booby-trapped motorcycle explodes outside
his home in the capital. “
On November 29, 2010: “Two attacks target leading Iranian nuclear scientists
on the same day. Majid Shahriari, a key member of Iran’s Atomic Energy
Agency, is killed in Tehran by a limpet bomb attached to his car. His
colleague Fereydoon Abbasi Davani is also targeted by a bomb attached to his
car, but escapes.” The car was parked in front of the Shahid Beheshti
University in Tehran where both men worked as professors.
On July 23, 2011: “Gunmen shoot dead Dariush Rezaei-Nejad, a senior
scientist who is reportedly associated with the defense ministry, and wound
his wife as they waited for their child outside a Tehran kindergarten.”
On January 11, 2012 —the same day that Ahmadinejad travelled from Nicaragua
to Cuba to give a conference at the University of Havana—, scientist Mostafa
Ahmadi Roshan, “a deputy director at the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility,
is killed in a car bomb blast outside the [Allameh Tabatabai] University in
east Tehran.” As in previous years “Iran once again accused the United
States and Israel.”
The killings represent a systematic and selective slaughter of brilliant
Iranian scientists. I have read articles by known Israeli sympathizers who
write about crimes carried out by Israeli intelligence services in
cooperation with the United States and NATO as if they were the most normal
occurrence.
At the same time, Moscow news agencies report that “Russia warned that in
Syria a similar scenario is developing as to that in Libya, and added that
this time the attack will be launched from neighboring Turkey.
“The secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said the
West wants to ‘punish Damascus not as much for repressing the opposition,
but because it is unwilling to sever ties with Tehran.’”
"…NATO members and some Persian Gulf states, operating according to the
Libya scenario, intend to move from indirect intervention in Syrian affairs
to direct military intervention…This time the main strikes forces will not
be provided by France, the U.K. or Italy, but possibly by neighboring
Turkey."
“Washington and Ankara are now assumed to be negotiating a “no-fly” zone
over Syria, where Syrian armed insurgents can be trained and concentrated,
added Patrushev."
News is not only coming out of Iran and the Middle East, but also from other
parts of Central Asia near the Middle East. These reports show the great
complexity of the problems that can arise from this dangerous region.
The United States has been led by its contradictory and absurd imperial
policy to get involved in serious problems in countries such as Pakistan,
whose borders with Afghanistan were drawn up by the colonialists without
taking into account culture or ethnicities.
In Afghanistan, which defended its independence against English colonialism
for centuries, drug production has multiplied in the wake of the Yankee
invasion. Meanwhile, European soldiers, supported by drone airplanes and
armed with sophisticated US weapons, carry out deplorable massacres that
increase the people’s hatred and ward off any possibilities of peace. All
this and other dirty actions are also reported by Western news agencies.
“WASHINGTON, January 12, 2012 - US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called
the actions of four U.S. marines who urinated on corpses in Afghanistan
“utterly deplorable” The video of the act was circulated in the Internet.
"’I have seen the footage, and I find the behavior depicted in it utterly
deplorable…’
"’This conduct is entirely inappropriate for members of the United States
military and does not reflect the standards of values our armed forces are
sworn to uphold…’”
In reality, Panetta neither confirms nor denies the action, and anyone,
including the Secretary of Defense himself, may harbor doubt.
But it is also extremely inhumane that men, women and children, or an
Afghani combatant fighting against the foreign occupation, be murdered by
bombs dropped by drone planes. Another very serious incident: dozens of
Pakistani soldiers and officials who safeguarded the country’s borders have
been killed by these bombs.
Afghani President Karzai stated that the outrage committed against the
bodies was “simply inhumane.” He asked for the US government “to urgently
investigate the video and apply the most severe punishment to anyone found
guilty in this crime.”
Meanwhile Taliban spokespersons declared that “over the last ten years,
hundreds of similar acts have been carried out that were not reported…”
One even feels sorry for those soldiers, thousands of kilometers away from
their family, friends and country, sent to fight in countries that they
might not have even heard of during their school days, where they are
assigned the task of killing or dying to enrich transnational companies,
arms manufacturers and unscrupulous politicians who each year squander funds
needed to feed and educate the uncountable millions of hungry and illiterate
people around the world.
Many of these soldiers, victims of the trauma suffered, end up taking their
own lives.
Is it an exaggeration to say that world peace is hanging by a thread?
Fidel Castro Ruz
January 12, 2012
In his usual all-comprehensive fashion, Comrade Fidel Castro warns of the dangers of nuclear war, which can obliterate the human civilisation. American aggressive foreign policy and its criminal wars of aggression in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan and its mobilising of propganda war against Iran with a view to prepare public opinion in favour of an attack on Iran show the real danger United States poses to the world. All peace-loving people and organisations should oppose the militaristic policies of the American Empire.
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