Liberal Resolution on Cuba
2005-11-06
2005-11-06
Proposed by the Swedish Liberal Party and aproved at the Liberal International's 175th Executive Committee, at Mallorca, Spain.
Liberal International, convening in Palma de Mallorca on 6 November 2005,
Welcomes the fact that the democracy movement in Cuba is mobilising more citizens everyday behind demands for democracy and human rights and considers this to be the core of a democratisation process.
Notes that Amnesty International has identified 71 prisoners of conscience in Cuba, that Freedom House considers Cuba to be one of the eight countries with the worst record as regards the respect for political rights and civil liberties, and that Reporters Without Borders has placed Cuba on position 166 out of 167 in its ranking of press freedom in the world.
Notes that the Comision Cubana por los Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional (CCDHRN) in April 2005 reported that the Cuban authorities had imprisoned 400 people over the last two months, with the average age of 18, for the alleged crime of “dangerousness”, a crime rendering sentences of one to three years.
Notes that various independent journalists in Cuba continuously report on government crackdown on democracy activists, such as imprisonments, harassment, beatings and other severe human rights violations.
Has no illusion that the current government in Cuba will ever voluntarily initiate a process towards democracy, neither through dialogue with the international community nor through isolation, but is convinced that democracy in Cuba can only be achieved through a massive, united and peaceful uprising by the Cuban people against the government in demand for democratic change.
Realises that there is a serious risk for increased violence and even civil war in Cuba unless the necessary changes are taking place within the near future.
Notes that the most important contribution the international community can provide to democratic changes is moral, financial and political support to Cuban organisations working for democratisation peacefully on and outside the island.
Calls on all Liberal International members to contribute to the democratisation process by establishing official contacts with organisations working within the democracy movement, such as the two Liberal International observer members Partido Liberal de Cuba and Partido Solidaridad Democrática.
Calls on the EU ambassadors to Cuba to invite representatives of the democracy movement for their national day festivities, and calls on all diplomatic missions in Cuba to engage in a continuous dialogue with the democracy movement on how to contribute to its work, as well as to contribute to the democratisation process by providing the necessary practical facilities to the democracy activists in order to improve their communication possibilities with their own citizens as well as with international partners.
Calls on Fidel Castro to immediately release all political prisoners, in particular Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, President of the PLC and Adolfo Fernández Saínz, Secretary of International Relations of PSD, both members of Liberal International.
http://www.presslingua.com/web/article.asp?artID=3582
Liberal International, convening in Palma de Mallorca on 6 November 2005,
Welcomes the fact that the democracy movement in Cuba is mobilising more citizens everyday behind demands for democracy and human rights and considers this to be the core of a democratisation process.
Notes that Amnesty International has identified 71 prisoners of conscience in Cuba, that Freedom House considers Cuba to be one of the eight countries with the worst record as regards the respect for political rights and civil liberties, and that Reporters Without Borders has placed Cuba on position 166 out of 167 in its ranking of press freedom in the world.
Notes that the Comision Cubana por los Derechos Humanos y Reconciliación Nacional (CCDHRN) in April 2005 reported that the Cuban authorities had imprisoned 400 people over the last two months, with the average age of 18, for the alleged crime of “dangerousness”, a crime rendering sentences of one to three years.
Notes that various independent journalists in Cuba continuously report on government crackdown on democracy activists, such as imprisonments, harassment, beatings and other severe human rights violations.
Has no illusion that the current government in Cuba will ever voluntarily initiate a process towards democracy, neither through dialogue with the international community nor through isolation, but is convinced that democracy in Cuba can only be achieved through a massive, united and peaceful uprising by the Cuban people against the government in demand for democratic change.
Realises that there is a serious risk for increased violence and even civil war in Cuba unless the necessary changes are taking place within the near future.
Notes that the most important contribution the international community can provide to democratic changes is moral, financial and political support to Cuban organisations working for democratisation peacefully on and outside the island.
Calls on all Liberal International members to contribute to the democratisation process by establishing official contacts with organisations working within the democracy movement, such as the two Liberal International observer members Partido Liberal de Cuba and Partido Solidaridad Democrática.
Calls on the EU ambassadors to Cuba to invite representatives of the democracy movement for their national day festivities, and calls on all diplomatic missions in Cuba to engage in a continuous dialogue with the democracy movement on how to contribute to its work, as well as to contribute to the democratisation process by providing the necessary practical facilities to the democracy activists in order to improve their communication possibilities with their own citizens as well as with international partners.
Calls on Fidel Castro to immediately release all political prisoners, in particular Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, President of the PLC and Adolfo Fernández Saínz, Secretary of International Relations of PSD, both members of Liberal International.
http://www.presslingua.com/web/article.asp?artID=3582
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