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OAS head supports Cuba's
membership
The
Washington Times,
October 28, 2004.
Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The
head of the Organization of American States'
says it is "inconceivable" Cuba
is not a member, El Universal reports.
Luigi Einaudi, who became the interim
head of the organization after former Costa
Rican President Miguel Angel Rodriguez resigned
Oct. 8 amid fraud charges, was in Mexico
City Tuesday for a government-sponsored
forum on children.
"It's inconceivable in today's world
to keep isolated or outside of the organization
a nation for reasons of incongruent ideologies,"
Einaudi said at a news conference. "But
the charter of the OAS and the slow process
of democratic jurisprudence has changed
very little."
Einaudi hinted President Fidel Castro's
regime was responsible for the country's
expulsion in 1962 from the organization
and is the reason why the country has not
been invited to rejoin.
"Cuba's return as it is, with a president
that if he's not ruling for life, has ruled
for more than 40 years ... creates a problem,"
he said.
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