Central Europe Online,
February 9, 2001.
PRAGUE, Feb 9, 2001 -- (CTK - Czech News Agency) Czech and Polish diplomats
are preparing a proposal for a resolution pointing to human rights violations in
Cuba, Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman Ales Pospisil said today in response to a
question from CTK.
Both countries have twice put forward similar resolutions in the past at the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Pospisil denied that the resolution
which is being prepared is connected with the recent detention of Czechs deputy
Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik in Cuba on subversion charges. "We had prepared
the resolution a long time before. It has been said too that the resolution
could contain that which it had not been possible to push through last year,"
said Pospisil.
The Czech Republic does not agree with the imposition of blanket economic
sanctions against Cuba, he said. "We are for sanctions which would above
all hit the originator of the problems," he said. Deputy foreign minister
Martin Palous has been in Warsaw this week discussing the preparation of the
resolution, which could also be aimed at some other Latin American countries,
Pospisil said.
((c) 2001 CTK - Czech News Agency)
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