CZECH REPUBLIC: THREE DAY CONFERENCE HELD BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR DEMOCRACY IN CUBA OPENS IN PRAGUE

Record ID: 646903

  • Title: CZECH REPUBLIC: THREE DAY CONFERENCE HELD BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR DEMOCRACY IN CUBA OPENS IN PRAGUE
  • Date: 17th September 2004
  • Summary: (U6) PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC (SEPTEMBER 17, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF RIVER AND HISTORIC PRAGUE 0.05 2. WS: EXTERIOR OF SENATE BUIDLING 0.10 3. VARIOUS: DELEGATES MEETING INSIDE SENATE BUILDING; PHOTOCALL OF DELEGATES AND FORMER DISSIDENTS; INCLUDING FORMER SPANISH PM JOSE MARIA ANWAR AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF CZECH REPUBLIC AND ONE TIME DISSIDENT, VACLAV HAVEL (4SHOTS) 0.43 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) FORMER SPANISH PRIME MINISTER, JOSE MARIA AZNAR: "There are thousands of people in Cuba that are asking for and awaiting our support." 0.48 5. SOUNDBITE (Czech) FORMER CZECH DISSIDENT, TOMAS POJAR, SAYING: "We addressed a request to Cuban authorities in order to have here those people we invited, the dissidents, but they did not let them come here." 0.59 6. VARIOUS INTERIORS (5 SHOTS) 1.22 7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) FORMER PRESIDENT OF CHILE AND ONE TIME CRITIC OF AUGOSTO PINOCHET, PATRICIO AYLWIN, SAYING: "I think that the embargo gives Castro an instrument to justify and legitimize the suffering of Cuban people using the embargo as a thin excuse." 1.44 8. DELEGATES TALKING OUTSIDE 1.47 9. SOUNDBITE (Czech) FORMER PRESIDENT OF CZECH REPUBLIC AND ONE TIME DISSIDENT, VACLAV HAVEL, SAYING: "I don't want to give any advise to the (Cuban) opposition, they know the best what to do. They should keep doing what they do now, work on projects such as Varelator, and of course, think in the longterm perspective what might follow after. It is necessary to be prepared for the times after the change of the system in Cuba which, as I hope, will come soon." 2.24 10. DELEGATES IN COURTYARD SEEN THROUGH GATE 2.27 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd October 2004 13:00
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  • Location: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
  • Reuters ID: LVAF2TKQ6QTM3VYEXK1Y5YMONBP7
  • Story Text: Meeting including former dissident from around the
    world in Prague offers support to Cuban dissident movement

    A three day conference held by International Committee for
    Democracy in Cuba began in Prague on Friday
    (September 17). Established in 2003, the movement aims to
    promote the democracy movement in Cuba and help them
    prepare for the fall of Castro's Communist regime.

    Delegates including Spain's former Prime Minister Jose
    Maria Aznar said that the Cuban authorities to stop using
    the economic embargo to legitimize the suffering of the
    Cuban people. They also also requested that Castro allow
    Cuban dissidents to attend the conference.


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