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Uruguay still not ready
for Cuba relations
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Australia, Thursday 22nd July, 2004.
Uruguay Foreign Minister Didier Operetti
said Wednesday that the conditions still
are not right for re-establishing diplomatic
relations with Cuba.
But Operetti also said the nation must
respect the decision to resume relations
with the Cuban government if that was the
policy of the winner of the next presidential
election, to be held in October 2004. Three
of the candidates have announced their intention
to re-establish ties.
Operetti also said that diplomatic relations
aren't established forever, nor are they
broken forever. The phenomena of international
relations are completely dynamic. It is
certainly logical to think that the government
that emerges from the next elections will
view the Cuba question from a new page.
He expressed the hope that Cuba will have
sufficient merit to involve itself in a
friendlier regional dialogue and that, in
the international arena, Cuba will open
its borders to allow the United Nations
human rights inspectors to enter. We aren't
dealing here with a people issue, but rather
a policy problem. No government can avoid
the issue of human rights policies.
The three presidential election
candidates -- Tabaré Vázquez
of the leftist Wide Front party, Jorge Larrañaga
of the Partido Nacional, and Guillermo Stirling
of the currently governing Partido Colorado
-- have all voiced intentions of solving
the diplomatic dispute with Cuba.
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