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NEWS
Encounter of
the MCUD with Ambassador Roger Noriega
M.C.U.D. International - Washington
DC. Nov 8 2003, - (www.cubamcud.org) A delegation of the Cuban Movement
for a Unified Democracy (MCUD) visited on Friday, the office of
Ambassador Roger Noriega, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western
Hemisphere Affairs of the State Department of the United States.
The Delegation was represented by Eng. Cesar Alarcon MCUD Delegate in
the United States and Eng. Andres Perez, who is member of the above
mentioned Movement and resides in North Carolina. Representing the
Department of State were Ambassador Roger Noriega, and Kevin Whitaker
from the State Department's Office of Cuban Affairs among others.
The meeting was amiable and frank. Eng. Alarcon provided an overview of
the work that the MCUD has been doing through its delegates at an
international level and the importance of continuing to take to every
corner of the world, actual and veridical information concerning the
situation that the people in Cuba suffer regarding violations to their
Human Rights.
In addition, the MCUD Delegation expressed to Mr. Ambassador their
concern, and that of the Cuban community in general, for the new
tendency in both the Senate and the House of Representatives to promote
the lifting of the embargo and eliminating the restrictions for North
Americans to travel to the island, attributing these new political
tendencies to the general ignorance of thereal situation that confront
the Cubans in the island.
Eng. Alarcon solicited Mr. Ambassador to express to Mr. President George
W. Bush "the gratefulness of the Cuban people for the support to the
Cuban community and for his clear and firm position with respect to the
fact that
while free and democratic elections do not exist in Cuba, freedom of
expression remains inexistent and political prisoners remain
incarcerated, there will be no deals with the dictator of Havana."
Eng. Alarcon stated that "we will not allow groups of low expectation to
make underhanded deals with the Castro nomenklatura deceiving the
expectations of Freedom and Democracy that the majority of the Cubans
have.
We must work in clear programs that restore to Cuba a true Democracy
with all the values and Universal Rights that the Cubans deserve, "
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