Mr. Pérez Roque -France.

Cuba Democracy Now! urgently sends today (yesterday) a request to the French government, presidency of the EU.

Madrid, October 15, 2008.

Mr. Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs.
Mr. Bruno Delaye, Ambassador of France in Spain.

SUBJECT: Urgent note to the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the French republic and to its Embassy in Spain, on the ocassion of the current visit of Mr. Felipe Pérez Roque, Castro dictatorship spokesman before France and Spain.

Your Excellencies,

Cuba Democracy Now! platform gave a confidence vote to the Spanish government to start a set of initiatives, with the aim to reach a strength of democratic values and essential freedoms in the Cuban nation. Later on we had to withdraw it bacause the above mentioned claims did not give the awaited results.

Recently we have witness a honoring display by a democracy (the Spanish), to the longest lived ditatorship on the Western Hemisphere (the Cuban), on the still painful visit of the Cuban Chancellor Felipe Pérez Roque to Madrid.

This is why our platform asks the presidency of the European Union and the government of France especially, not to give up on the values and principles which are the European Union foundation before Castro dictatorship, and at least to demand the Cuban regime emissary respect for the human rights and freedom for the prisoners of conscience in the island.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further clarification.