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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU-Cuba relations2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030903.1.3-008"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-03-Speech-3-0092
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerardo Galeote2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I agree with Commissioner Nielson that since the Cuban regime unleashed its repression in March, with the detention of independent journalists and human rights activists, our relations have only deteriorated. The sentences followed trials which did not respect, according to all the analyses, Mr President, the necessary minimum legal safeguards, proving the most pessimistic predictions to be right. What is more, the prison conditions of those sentenced, according to all the news, Mr Nielson, clearly violate human rights. I believe that, at this time, the essential thing, the priority, must be to deploy all the resources available to us to protect those sentenced and their families. I would ask Commissioner Nielson to tell us what he is doing in relation to the Commission’s delegation, recently opened up in Havana. The Cuban authorities must have no doubt that liberation is an essential requirement if they hope to move in the direction of normalising our relations. Furthermore, they must explicitly protect other dissidents who are not under arrest, such as the current holder of the Sakharov Prize, Mr Oswaldo Payá. The authorities’ refusal to allow him to be with us today – announced by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy – seems to me to be very worrying, and I would ask the Presidency of the European Parliament to support the Committee on Foreign Affairs in relation to its intentions. In view of this situation – as Minister Frattini has said – it is clear that it is not possible to change the common position set in 1996 and we must – and I address this directly to the President—in-Office of the Council – prevent any gesture which could be interpreted as an internal difference within the European Union. On the contrary, we must preserve the current unified approach and I am glad that the Italian Presidency is making efforts in this direction. We must also reject the Cuban authorities’ attempts to divide us and therefore measures such as the demonstration of 14 June or the closure of the Spanish Cultural Centre are not so much acts of aggression against a Member State as against the whole of the European Union. Mr President, our only purpose must be to improve the living conditions and areas of freedom of the Cuban citizens."@en1

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