PETITION FROM THE FORMER PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE EXILED BY CUBA TO SPAIN, TO THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, ABOUT THE 'COMMON POSITION' REGARDING CUBA

PETITION FROM THE FORMER PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE EXILED BY CUBA TO
SPAIN, TO THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, ABOUT THE 'COMMON
POSITION' REGARDING CUBA
20-07-2010.

(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- Madrid, 19 July 2010

Your Excellencies, the

Foreign Ministers of the European Union

We, the Cuban prisoners of conscience exiled to Spain in recent days,
aware of the manifest willingness of some European countries to modify
the E.U.'s "Common Position" regarding Cuba, declare our disagreement
with an approval of this measure, as we understand that the Cuban
government has not taken steps that evidence a clear decision to advance
toward the democratization of our country.

Our departure for Spain must not be considered a good-will gesture but a
desperate action on the regime's part in its urgent quest for credits of
every type.

It is for that reason that we ask the countries of the European Union
not to again soften their exigencies intended to achieve changes toward
democracy in Cuba and to secure for all Cubans the same rights that
European citizens enjoy.

Respectfully,

Ricardo González Alfonso
Mijail Bárzaga Lugo
Normando Hernández González
Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta
Omar Rodríguez Saludes
Luis Milán Fernández
Pablo Pacheco Ávila
José Luis García Paneque
Julio César Gálvez
Léster González Pentón

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