Cuba-US
Exchanges on Cooperation in Haiti
Written by Tomas Armenteros Crespo
Havana, Jan 28 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez,
stated Thursday that exchanges between his country and the United
States have been carried out for a possible cooperation in the humanitarian
operations in Haiti.
"We don't have the North American government's concrete proposal
in that matter although there were exchanges," he added before
the national and foreign press.
The Cuban Foreign Minister clarified, however, that cooperation
has been agreed on with Washington in relation to the Cuban air
space for humanitarian operations in help of the Haitian people
and around 60 flights were already made under those conditions.
"It is not the first time it happens because in September
11, 2001, after the terrible terrorist attacks, Cuba offered all
its airports and opened its air space to the US airplanes,"
Rodríguez added.
He reiterated the Cuban disposition to cooperate with any country
engaged in the humanitarian operation and would make it with the
US if this was transcendent and important for the Haitian people
and always in a serious and responsible way.
In answering another question, he refused that any sort of negotiations
exists on the topic of human rights between Spain and Cuba, and
clarified there is nothing but a flowing political dialogue of high
level and exchange in all the topics.
As to the arrested US citizen in Cuba for illegal activities, he
responded that, according to the own laws of his country, the man
is an agent of a foreign power and his case is under an investigation
process.
"It is that the US government doesn't give up pursuing the
destruction of the Cuban Revolution, to change the political and
social regime of our country, and in any place of the world, what
this US citizen carried out would be a serious crime," he remarked.
In answering a question on US President Barack ObamaÂ?s last
public intervention, he stated that the US leader is facing the
serious problem of how to reconcile his speech with the facts and
reality, and his words with practical actions.
Taken
from the web site(www.plenglish.com)
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