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Motion against Cuba Fails in Spanish Senate

SPAIN, March 24, 2010. - The Spanish Senate rejected a motion against Cuba promoted by the conservative Popular Party (PP), which required the government drop its goal of eliminating the so-called Common Position of the European Union (EU), reports PL.

SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER, MICHELANGELO MORATINOS, DESCRIBED THE COMMON POSITION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AS OBSOLETE.

The initiative promoted by the Right in the upper house of the Cortes (Parliament) was defeated by 126 votes to the 121 senators of the PP, which came out in favor of it, and eight abstentions.

Besides demanding that the executive does not promote within the EU the repeal of that unilateral measure, adopted in 1996 at the behest of the then head of government, José María Aznar, the text would have condemned the island for the recent death in prison of a common criminal.

A senator from the Izquierda Unida (United Left) coalition, Joan Joseph Nuet, welcomed the defeat of the Conservatives and said that the extremism of the PP even scares the Right, ignoring human rights, trying to revamp a position against the Cuban people and government and looking for any way wear down the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE).

AN OBSOLETE POSITION

Moreover, the Spanish foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, described EU Common Position on Cuba as obsolete, and demanded its repeal.

Moratinos defended the removal of that unilateral action during a review session of the government in the Deputies’ Congress (Lower House), where the PP deputy, Jorge Moragas, urged him to abandon that plan.

FRENCH AND DANES EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA

The resolution of European Parliament (EP) to condemn Cuba is an insult to democracy, especially when knowing of the injustices committed by almost all the countries comprising the European Community on the human rights issue, said a motion of France-Cuba Association.

The European Parliament should be asked why it does not protest about the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in U.S. for over 11 years, for fighting the terrorism launched against their country from the U.S., says the paper.

It added that it was deplorable that the EP shows such a lack of objectivity on this issue with respect to Cuba and also questions whether that body forgot the US blockade for 50 years and the numerous attacks and crimes perpetrated against Cuba, not named in any resolution.

Meanwhile, in a message, the Danish Communist Party expressed its strong solidarity with Cuba, which once again is the victim of a media campaign orchestrated by the darker forces of our time. (Cubaminrex – Granma Daily)

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