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AGI Online, Italy. June
13, 2003.
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, June 12 - With a letter sent to defence minister
Antonio Martino, SDI senator Giovanni Crema - president of the
inter-parliamentary union - resigned from the presidency of the bilateral
section "Italy-Cuba frienship". "I acknowledged that, following
the last tragic events, there is no possibility to communicate frankly".
"My availability, as a democratic socialist, to take part in
initiatives to help the Cuban people ferry across to a democracy respecting
human rights is still intact, but it cannot be fruitful without a credible
interlocutor. Since my mandate began, my only dialogue with the embassy focused
on Cuba's request of an institu tional intervention which 5 Cuban Heroes are
victim of, "prisoners of the Empire ", that is, tried and condemned in
the USA. I have always fought for human rights, hence, at a personal level, I
will investigate on this. But I cannot fuel the fire of institutional talks
which risk becoming grotesque. I thank you for the faith you had in me, but I am
forced to hand in my resignations". (AGI)
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Cuba: Casini, Castro's attack on Brlusconi and Anar shameful
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, June 12 - "That a tyrant such as Fidel Castro can
permit himself to attack Berlusconi and Aznar is simply shameful." This was
stated by President of the Lower House, Pier Ferdinando Casini, at the margins
of a meeting held as vice-president of Christian Democracy International, with a
delegation of dissident Cubans. (AGI)
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