Mexico City - Cuba is showing "unprecedented positive engagement" with the United Nations in the field of human rights, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said Friday. Speaking at the end of a 4-day visit to Mexico, Arbour told reporters that recent moves by Cuba were significant.
She noted that Cuba invited the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Jean Ziegler last year, and that the communist island announced in December that it intends to sign international agreements on civil and political rights and on economic, social and cultural rights.
"These are two recent examples, I think, where Cuba has shown an engagement, an unprecedented positive engagement, with the UN human rights system," Arbour said.
She observed, however, that she herself had not yet received an invitation to visit the island.
