Havana, June 14 (AIN) Speaking at the Group of 77 and China summit underway, Cuban Minister Felipe Perez Roque said, "If we don't take action we will allow other countries to take over the discussion and push aside other issues which are key for our nations."  

Perez Roque warned that some proposals being put forward to reform of the UN - far from promoting democratization and contributing to that body's improvement - foster greater selectivity, exclusion and they give privileges to hegemonic views and the interests of a few developed countries.  

Taking part in the meeting in Doha, Qatar, the Cuban delegation stressed that it "objects to attempts to rewrite Article 51 of the UN Charter, because that would legitimize the doctrine of preventive war," said the minister.  

 The Cuban foreign minister pointed out that his country also objects to the proposal on the so-called "responsibility of protection" which he says grants the supposed "right" of powerful countries to unleash wars of conquest against Third World nations.  

Perez Roque concluded saying that the UN's reform cannot be confined to broadening the scope of the Security Council, but must also restore the full role the General Assembly in
accordance with the Charter.

(AIN) June 14 2005