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Cuba signs international human rights pacts Katerina Ossenova at 4:17 PM ET [JURIST] Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque [official profile, in Spanish] signed two international human rights treaties on Thursday, making Cuba party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [texts]. Both treaties build upon ideas contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [text], to which Cuba is already a signatory. In December 2007, Perez announced plans to sign the treaties [JURIST report] and also said that Cuba would begin allowing UN observers to monitor its human rights [VOA report] beginning in 2009. AP has more. Link | 
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