Cablegate: Demarche Delivered On Commission for Assistance To

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TAGS: CU PGOV PHUM PREL CY
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COMMISSION FOR ASSISTANCE TO
A FREE CUBA

REF: STATE 113702

1. (U) On July 14, poloff delivered reftel message to Savvas
Vladimirou in the MFA's Divison of the Americas and Oceania.
Valdimirou said that the EU (through the EU Committee on
Latin America, COLAT) had developed a document similar to the
report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba and
that the EU also supported democratic change in Cuba. He
believed, based on conversations with Cuban diplomats in
Brussels, that members of the Cuban government below Castro
were sensitive to the country's need for change and that
given proper time, peaceful, democratic change after Fidel
Castro's death was unavoidable.
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