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"Mr President, I wish to begin by thanking the President-in-Office for his extensive answer, but I feel I must suggest that we need to go further. It is precisely because we support a change towards transition in Cuba and because people’s expectations have been brutally shattered, that I believe we all have a particular responsibility. This is all the more true because last December this Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize to a great Cuban personality in the field of human rights: Osvaldo Payá, who is suffering considerably at the moment.
We must adopt a position of active solidarity, which leads me to ask the following question: is the Council prepared to invite Mr Payá to take part in meetings with the Presidency, with the High Representative and with the Council, in order to give his feelings, in person, about the extremely serious events taking place in Cuba? Would the Council consider the possibility of suggesting to all Member States that they do the same, through their diplomatic representatives, in other words, that they convey their solidarity directly and invite Osvaldo Payá, the 2002 Sakharov prizewinner, to visit every European capital and there give a true picture of the Cuban people’s suffering?"@en1
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