Cablegate: Spain: Prisoners of Conscience Declaration

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TAGS: PHUM PREL SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN: PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DECLARATION
DEMARCHE DELIVERED

REF: SECSTATE 63968

(SBU) On June 16, poloff expressed appreciation for Spain's
support for the US-EU prisoners of conscience declaration to
Spanish MFA Director of Human Rights Fernando Fernandez-Arias
Minuesa and provided him a courtesy copy of the draft press
statement. Spain chose not to release a statement separate
from that issued by the EU Council on June 19.
AGUIRRE

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