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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8707

15 May 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/cuba
Irish Presidency to take account of human rights violations when re-assessing its common position on Cuba in June

Brussels, 14/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - In a declaration on behalf of the EU on the recent "trials and sentencing of a further group of 13 Cuban human rights activists and journalists arrested while peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, opinion, association and assembly, principles the EU strongly defends", the Irish Presidency warns that it will continue to "monitor flagrant violations of fundamental civil and political rights by the Cuban authorities - which...

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