Cuban President, Fidel Castro has criticised the European Union for failing to back Cuba's call for a UN investigation into US treatment of
detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Cuba asked the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva last week to ask Washington to authorise an independent investigation into the situation in disputed US-controlled territory in eastern Cuba.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque called on European nations to back the resolution asking for an inquiry.
The European Union "does not have any intention of doing so," EU spokeswoman Krisztina Nagy said.
Castro scorned the EU response yesterday. "We were thinking too highly, and too honorably, of the European community" to imagine they would back the project, Castro said.
He also downplayed the importance of the European Union to Cuba, saying the island doesn't accept financial support from EU governments.
The Cuban leader also lamented new alliances between formerly communist Eastern European nations and the United States, saying former Soviet satellites "are now rotating in the orbit of the (American) empire."