Cuban Foreign Minister Opens Emigrants´ Conference in Havana

Cuban Foreign Minister Opens Emigrants´ Conference in Havana

Havana, March 19 (acn) "Despite US maneuvers, there are no essential
problems between Cuba and the majority of its emigrants," Foreign
Minister Felipe Perez Roque said today at the opening session of the
Meeting of Representatives of Cubans Abroad against the US Blockade and
Terrorism, underway in Havana's Hotel Nacional until Friday.

Perez Roque praised the position in defense of their motherland of the
129 Cuban emigrants attending the conference, representing organizations
based in 34 countries of the world.

The minister specially thanked those coming from the United States for
challenging the legal restrictions imposed by President Bush, and said
Cuba puts a lot of effort into making communication easier between
residents abroad and their families in the island.

Some 400,000 emigrants have already normalized their migratory status,
said Perez Roque. Last year we welcomed 193,000 residents abroad, a
record figure, he stressed. Cuban patriots have set up organizations of
support in 40 countries.

Cuba's number one diplomat referred to the conference as an exchange of
experiences, and called for a joint effort in support of the resistance
of the Cuban people facing the new harsher measures taken by the White
House, limiting visits and remittances to families from the US.

"Another meeting of the kind with Cuban residents in South America will
take place next October", confirmed Perez Roque, and cited previous
events of the kind held last year in Paris and Berlin with European
emigrants, and others are to take place in Belgium and Nicaragua later
in 2008.

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