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Friday, February 26, 2010

ROS-LEHTINEN CAUTIONS SECRETARY CLINTON ON OVERTURES TO CUBNA REGIME

ROS-LEHTINEN CAUTIONS SECRETARY CLINTON ON OVERTURES TO CUBNA REGIME
2010-02-26.
Ileana Ross-Lehtinen

(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- Calls for greater U.S. support to
dissidents, political prisoners like Orlando Zapata Tamayo

WASHINGTON– U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, raised concerns about the
Administration's Cuba policy this morning at a hearing with U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Statement by Ros-Lehtinen:

"I am deeply concerned about reports that the Administration might bend
to the Cuban regime's blackmail and agree to end anti-censorship and
pro-democracy programs, in exchange for the release of U.S. citizen Alan
Gross.

"I ask you to stand firm against such ploys.

"Cuban political prisoner of conscience and human rights dissident
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died of a hunger strike this week. This is the
fate of those engaged in the struggle for freedom in Cuba. Let us honor
Orlando Zapata Tamayo's memory. We must do more to help the opposition
movement in Cuba.

"I wish to hand you a copy of a February 3rd letter addressed to you
from former U.S. Ambassadors to Western Hemisphere countries urging you
'not to make any concessions to any dictatorial regime, and particularly
not to Cuba.' I could not agree more and hope the Administration heeds
this caution."

ROS-LEHTINEN CAUTIONS SECRETARY CLINTON ON OVERTURES TO CUBNA REGIME -
Misceláneas de Cuba (26 February 2010)
http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=25937

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