Spain will not "force" new EU relation with Cuba

Spain will not "force" new EU relation with Cuba
Europe News
Nov 17, 2009, 14:12 GMT

Madrid - Spain will upgrade the European Union's relations with Cuba
only if such a 'consensus' is reached during Madrid's EU presidency in
the first half of 2010, a senior official said Tuesday.

Some EU countries are critical of Spain's plans to modify the union's
1996 common position on Cuba, which links relations to human rights and
freedoms on the Caribbean island.

'Nothing will be done without the consensus of the 27' EU member
countries, Spain's Ibero-America Secretary of State Juan Pablo de
Laiglesia told a senate Ibero-American affairs committee.

However, he attributed the reservations of some countries partly to
their lack of knowledge about the changes that had occurred in Cuba
since 1996.

Cuba could not be an exception to Spain's plans of improving EU
relations with all of Latin America, the secretary of state said.

Spain will not "force" new EU relation with Cuba - Monsters and Critics
(17 November 2009)
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