CUBA, April 26, 2007.- Laotian foreign minister and deputy prime minister, Thongloun Sisoulith, has condemned the US aggressions against Cuba for over 45 years as well as the recent release on bail of notorious terrorist Posada Carriles by the Bush administration. After ending an official visit to Bolivia, Thongloun Sisoulith said his government is against violence and added his signature to a declaration, already signed by over 3,000 personalities around the world, urging Washington to meet its international obligations and try Luis Posada Carriles for his terrorist crimes or fulfil the extradition request made by Venezuela. Posada is an explosives expert and long time CIA operative. The Cuban-born, naturalized Venezuelan, participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, is credited with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed all 73 persons aboard and a string of deadly hotel bombings in Havana in 1997, as well as several assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and other Cuban officials. In statements to the PL news agency, Mr. Sisoulith qualified his meeting with Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca as fruitful and highlighted the signing of a joint declaration in both nations' interest in establishing diplomatic relations. (Cuabaminrex-AIN)
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