Cuba Urges U.S. Not To
Send Money To
"Mercenaries"
The United States should
stop sending money to
"mercenaries" that have
fermented internal
destabilization of Cuba,
Cuban Foreign Minister
Felipe Perez Roque said
Thursday.
The money has been sent
by "terrorists" in Miami
to "small groups (of
dissidents)" through
Michael Parmly, chief of
the U.S. Interests
Section in Cuba, Perez
Roque told a news
conference.
Parmly's acts violated
Cuban and U.S. laws, as
well as international
norms and agreements,
including the 1961
Vienna Convention on
Diplomatic Relations
that bans diplomats from
breaking the laws of the
receiving state or
interfering in its
internal affairs, he
added.
"We hope that (U.S.
President) George W.
Bush's government ...
takes necessary measures
to rectify the conduct
of its diplomats in
Cuba," Perez Roque said.
"We expect a thorough
investigation from the
U.S. authorities and the
results should be made
public," he said.
According to the foreign
minister, Parmly was
involved in at least
three money-deliveries
to dissidents, which
were described by the
government as
"counter-revolutionary
or mercenary small
groups" in the service
of countries like the
United States.
The U.S. Interests
Section in Cuba
"encourages, organizes,
funds and follows in
detail" the dissidents'
activities "to
destabilize the internal
situation," he said.
During the past three
days, the Cuban
government released
e-mails, letters, videos
and audio tapes which it
says proved that Parmly
had carried funds to
activist Martha Beatriz
Roque, who allegedly
passed them on to other
dissidents.
But the U.S. State
Department has denied
wrongdoing, saying it
has long provided
humanitarian assistance
to families of
imprisoned dissidents in
Cuba.
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