Tuesday, 6 March, 2001, 18:05 GMT. BBC News Online

More than one-hundred dissident organisations in Cuba have backed calls for a referendum on the country's political and economic systems.

The referendum would ask the Cuban people whether they want to introduce changes that would guarantee freedom of expression, an amnesty for political prisoners, the right to set up private enterprises and the creation of a multi-party political system.

According to the Cuban constitution, a call for a referendum must be supported by at least ten-thousand signatures, which the dissident groups hope to gather this year. The call, known as Proyecto Varela, had been originally promoted by the Cuban Liberation Movement.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service

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