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Moratinos boasts of "advances" in relations with Castro
Foreign minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos said yesterday that there are "positive facts" in Cuba, such as the meeting held by Cuban dissidents on May 20 and the freeing of some prisoners. Moratinos's statements come in the wake of the expulsion of several European politicians and journalists from Cuba. Moratinos said that therefore the Spanish administration wants to continue along the "line of dialogue" with Havana, and called for "objectivity in evaluating the advances caused by the EU policy toward Cuba, promoted by Spain." "We must be objective in our evaluations," said Moratinos, when asked about the effects of the recent attempts by Fidel Castro to influence the EU's decision on whether to continue the suspension of diplomatic relations with Cuba past June. "Try to see where we were with the measures before the beginning of this Spanish administration and the lack of dialogue with Cuba and then see where we are now. There have been liberations from prison, meetings with the dissidents, the dissidents meet with the (foreign) mission chiefs and with diplomatic representatives, there is a congress of dissidents which has never before been held, these are facts," said Moratinos. "That's not enough? Well, we would like to go faster, but before we had these dissidents in jail and without the ability to call meetings. We're going to keep working and providing facts, and trying to be objective," he said. Asked about the expulsion of European journalists and political leaders, Moratinos said, "I don't know how many parliamentarians were expelled, I don't know whether it was four and five other journalists, while there were 150 dissidents who went to the meeting." He then called the expulsions "unacceptable." Moratinos is to receive the Czech foreign minister today in Madrid and will bring up this question, as the Czech republic is one of the firmest opponents of the policy of detente with Cuba. "We don't have to convince anyone, simply point out what the advances and our goals are. I think we have to be objective," he said.
http://www.spainherald.com/2005-05-24news.html