US Diplomats in Cuba Violate International Laws
 
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 20:59:20 -0500 (CDT)


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Posted: 2008/05/23 From: http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/

Although the US Government tries to defend its actions saying that they 
are legal, it is violating the Vienna Convention, the Cuban law and the 
US-Cuba bilateral accords governing the role of the US Interest Section in 
Havana.

HAVANA,  Cuba, May 22 (acn) New information about the links between US 
diplomats  based  in Havana, Cuban mercenaries and terrorists resident in 
the United States was disclosed on Wednesday during the prime time TV 
program The Round Table.

For  the  third  consecutive  day, evidence was presented by panelists 
about  the links between the mercenaries in Cuba and US diplomats with the 
Interests  Section  in  Havana  who act as mere couriers bringing money 
remittances   from   Cuban-born   terrorist  Santiago  Alvarez
   -  currently jailed in the United States on weapons charges which he 
intended to use in violent actions against Cuba.

Phone calls and e-mails between these mercenaries and the US officials 
were  also presented as irrefutable evidence of the US interference in 
Cubas  domestic  affairs  and  Washingtons  links  with  international 
self-confessed terrorists.

Among   the   US   diplomats   who   serve   as   couriers   for   the 
counter-revolutionary  elements in Cuba are Robert (Bob) Blau, who was 
recently promoted to the post of deputy Director of the Cuba Bureau at the 
US  State  Department,  and  Michael  Parmly,  the head of the US Interest 
Section in Havana.

In  a  special interview for The Round Table, Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, 
Director  of  the  North  American  department  at  the  Cuban Foreign 
Ministry,  said  that  Cuba  has  filed  many  protests  before the US 
Government  for  the  numerous  violations  of  the  Vienna Convention 
committed  by  the  US  diplomats  in  Havana  and their provoking and 
interfering behavior.

She  recalled  that  on July 18, 2005, they presented a verbal note of 
protest  three days after three diplomatic bags arrived in Havana with the 
stamp  of the US State Department although they had actually been sent  by 
the so-called Center for a Free Cuba, led by terrorist Frank Calzon.

Vidal  Ferreiro  recalled  that,  since  1998,  that  organization has 
received more then eight million dollars to subvert the internal order in 
Cuba.

This  and other notes to the US Administration have not been answered, she 
stressed.

The  Cuban  official  added  that  although the US Government tries to 
defend  its  actions  saying  that they are legal, it is violating the 
Vienna  Convention,  the  Cuban  law and the US-Cuba bilateral accords 
governing the role of the US Interest Section in Havana.