BY ORLANDO ORAMAS LEON—PL special correspondent—

GENEVA—The United States today made it official that its purpose is to charge Cuba in the UN Human Rights Commission, which Havana is denouncing as a repeated political and two-faced maneuver.

The US delegation to the commission, which includes two assistant secretaries of state and an assistant secretary of defense, has registered its anti-Cuban resolution, with the European Union as its main cosponsor, while other cosponsoring governments include those of Israel, Australia, Canada, Japan and various Eastern European governments.

Although Prensa Latina has learned of pressures brought to bear on some of the African delegations, until now none of them has joined Washington’s proposal, which did win the backing of the governments of El Salvador and Nicaragua.

But neither San Salvador nor Managua is part of the HRC, and thus, neither has the right to vote.

According to the list, Washington’s proposal includes a further 12 cosponsoring governments out of the total of 53 member countries on the commission.

The vote is set for next Thursday or Friday. Until then, experts here say, US diplomats in Geneva will be increasing their maneuvering.

The same sources affirm that most of that maneuvering is being decided in Washington, with “phone calls, offers and threats to third countries” that have not as yet declared themselves one way or another on the resolution.

According to the Cuban government, the United States is not interested in the real situation of human rights in the small, neighboring country, against which it has maintained a strict blockade for more than 45 years.

Havana has qualified the White House maneuvering towards a resolution here as a “ridiculous and torturous ritual,” which last year was approved by just one vote.