>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:58:42 -0500
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>Subject: Radio Havana Cuba-08 November 2000
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>Radio Havana Cuba-08 November 2000
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>Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
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>Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 08 November 2000
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>*CUBA ASKS SPAIN NOT TO MISTREAT BASQUES REFUSED ASYLUM BY CUBAN EMBASSY
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>*PASTORS FOR PEACE GROUP VISITS WESTERN PINAR DEL RIO
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>*ANTONIO MACEO BRIGADE TAKES PART IN WORLD SOLIDARITY MEETING
>
>*GENERAL SECRETARY OF SOUTH AFRICA'S COMMUNIST PARTY DEMANDS US END BLOCKADE
>
>*COMMERCIAL DELEGATION FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF KOREA ARRIVES IN CUBA
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>*CUBA PLANS TO DRILL 4 MILLION TONS OF OIL IN 2001
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>*SECOND WORLD SOLIDARITY MEETING BEGINS FRIDAY IN HAVANA
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>*CUBA ASKS SPAIN NOT TO MISTREAT BASQUES REFUSED ASYLUM BY CUBAN EMBASSY
>
>Havana, November 8 (RHC)-- Cuba's Foreign Ministry has called on the
>government of Spain to respect the physical well being of two Basque
>separatists who requested political asylum at Cuba's embassy in Madrid. A
>Foreign Ministry note, published Wednesday in Granma newspaper, explained
>that on Monday two women jumped over the fence of the Cuban embassy, stating
>they were being persecuted.
>
>Cuban diplomatic officials explained that Cuba does not have asylum
>agreements with any European nation, persuading the two women to desist
>from their intention. They were later arrested by Spanish police who now
>accuse them of planning terrorist attacks as members of the Basque
>separatist group ETA.
>
>The Cuban Foreign Ministry note recalled that Cuba has respected the
>physical well being and legal rights of Cuban citizens who have entered
>Spain's embassy in Havana, oftentimes remaining on embassy grounds for weeks
>at a time.
>
>
>** [NY Transfer News Editor's Note: To our knowledge, no nation in the world
>has such a thing as an "asylum agreement" with any other nation. The very
>idea is utterly absurd. We wonder whether the Basque delegation to the World
>Solidarity Conference will even attend the meeting, after this dismaying and
>inexplicable event. Since the Cuban government usually has very good reasons
>for its actions, we hope they will reveal what REALLY prompted this decision.
>
>More news about this event is available on the NY Transfer News
>Radical Politics newsfeeds.] **
>
>
>*PASTORS FOR PEACE GROUP VISITS WESTERN PINAR DEL RIO
>
>Pinar del Rio, November 8 (RHC)-- Some 70 members of the U.S.
>solidarity/religious organization Pastors for Peace are visiting the western
>Cuban province of Pinar del Rio. The main objective of the visit is to
>assess the use of alternative energy and its positive impact on the
>environment.
>
>Twenty-four tons of medical supplies and materials useful for alternative
>energy collected by the U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan will soon arrive by
>ship in Havana.
>
>The members of the Pastors for Peace caravan will be part of the U.S.
>delegation that will attend the Second World Solidarity with Cuba meeting,
>which gets underway on Friday.
>
>
>*ANTONIO MACEO BRIGADE TAKES PART IN WORLD SOLIDARITY MEETING
>
>Havana, November 8 (RHC)-- The Miami-based, Cuban-American solidarity with
>Cuba group, the Antonio Maceo Brigade, has announced that their members will
>take part in the upcoming international solidarity conference in the Cuban
>capital.
>
>The coordinator of the Antonio Maceo Brigade, Andres Gomez, told reporters
>in Miami that the members of his group will demonstrate their admiration and
>support for the Cuban people and their right to self-determination.
>
>During the conference, participants will discuss Washington's blockade
>against Cuba, as well as information and misinformation about the Cuban
>Revolution. Delegates will also have the opportunity to exchange experiences
>in the solidarity movements of their countries.
>
>
>*GENERAL SECRETARY OF SOUTH AFRICA'S COMMUNIST PARTY DEMANDS US END BLOCKADE
>
>Havana, November 8 (RHC)-- The General Secretary of South Africa's Communist
>Party, Bleid Enzimande, has affirmed that the U.S. economic blockade --
>imposed on Cuba for nearly 40 years -- must end.
>
>In a meeting with the president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon,
>the South African leader pointed out his country's determination to expand
>the solidarity movement with Cuba.
>
>In this regard, he expressed that a friendship group with Cuba has been
>organized in South Africa, which includes members of the Communist Party,
>Labor Unionists, as well as members of the African National Congress. The
>South African leader, who is leading his country's delegation to the Second
>World Solidarity with Cuba meeting, stressed his government's decision to
>continue denouncing Washington's hypocrisy with regard to the passing of
>those laws that instead of easing the U.S. blockade, have tightened it even
>more.
>
>
>*COMMERCIAL DELEGATION FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF KOREA ARRIVES IN CUBA
>
>Havana, November 8 (RHC)-- A commercial delegation from the Democratic
>Republic of Korea, headed by the Minister of Foreign Trade, Gang Zong Jo,
>arrived in Havana on Wednesday to participate in the 20th Bilateral Session
>of Economic, Scientific and Technical Commission.
>
>Korea's Minister of Foreign Trade emphasized the excellent political
>relations between the two countries. Composed of experts from many economic
>sectors, the delegation will be in Cuba until Sunday, meeting with Cuban
>specialists in important areas including agriculture, sugar industry,
>foreign trade and investment and economic cooperation.
>
>
>*CUBA PLANS TO DRILL 4 MILLION TONS OF OIL IN 2001
>
>Havana, November 8 (RHC)-- Cuba is committed to reach some four million tons
>of oil for the year 2001 as part of government efforts in achieving
>self-sufficiency in the field of energy, according to the Ministry of Basic
>Industry.
>
>Cuba's oil industry is planning to extract a record of three million tons
>this year and will take the necessary steps for exploration and extraction
>in the deep waters of what is called the Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf
>of Mexico.
>
>In addition to the exploration and extraction of the oil, nickel and cobalt
>production offer the island's economy excellent perspectives for growth.
>
>
>*SECOND WORLD SOLIDARITY MEETING BEGINS FRIDAY IN HAVANA
>
>More than 3500 delegates from 98 countries will be in Havana for the Second
>World Solidarity with Cuba Meeting.
>
>Solidarity and friendship with Cuba has been demonstrated since the first
>moments when this country experienced the hostility of the United States.
>Today, over 1600 solidarity organizations in 127 countries maintain regular
>ties with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP),
>compared to some 500 in 1989. Those organizations publish 400 newspapers,
>magazines and bulletins, aimed at spreading the truth about Cuba, about the
>Cuban people and their determination to defend their sovereignty and
>legitimate right to self-determination.
>
>The world solidarity with Cuba movement is very heterogeneous, grouping
>NGOs, religious, professional and labor associations, as well as Nobel Peace
>Prize winners, renowned intellectuals, scientists and even political leaders
>who have played a key role in the governments of their respective countries
>-- people from all walks of life, united in the conviction that the U.S.
>blockade against Cuba is genocidal and unacceptable from all points of view,
>and that all people have a legitimate right to determine their own destiny
>without foreign interference.
>
>The world solidarity movement has also contributed to Cuba's efforts to
>maintain the island's free education and health systems -- two major
>achievements of the Revolution -- as well as to extend Cuba's expertise,
>particularly in these two key sectors, to other Third World peoples.
>
>The largest foreign delegation to participate in the international
>solidarity meeting that gets underway on Friday is a delegation from the
>United States -- with nearly 600 solidarity activists -- further evidence of
>the growing sentiment among the U.S. people against the blockade and in
>support of the Cuban people.
>
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