By Stephen Gibbs
BBC News, Havana

Cuba has said it will not co-operate in any form with a resolution passed against it by the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
Moments after the vote was passed, Cuba's foreign minister described it as completely illegitimate.

The resolution, brought by the US, calls for the renewal of the mandate of a UN envoy to investigate alleged human rights abuses on the communist island.

The envoy was appointed in 2003, but Cuba has never allowed her to visit.

Christine Chanet recently urged Cuba to release imprisoned dissidents and allow its people freedom of expression and freedom of travel.

US abuses

Despite routinely ignoring the resolutions passed against it, Cuba does on one level pay a great deal of attention to the UN Human Rights Commission.

Countries which support Cuba in Geneva are hailed as brave allies. Those that vote against it are condemned as lackeys of the United States.

This year, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque described as disgraceful the fact that Ukraine and Mexico - sometimes sympathisers with Cuba - voted in favour of the resolution.

He also said it was pathetic that all European Union members of the commission voted against Cuba, and warned that as a consequence, Cuba's recently improved relations with Europe will be reviewed.

Cuba now wants the commission to look at alleged American human rights abuses.

It is presenting a last-minute resolution calling for an independent inspection of conditions among prisoners in the Guantanamo naval base, which Cuba describes as a concentration camp.