Cuban Legislators Review Friendship Work
he Cuban National Assembly of People''s Power Members are reviewing on Friday the work in the current year by the parliamentary groups for friendship with other countries.
Those groups are holding their sessions at the capital's Conference Center, as part of the works prior to the legislative authority's ordinary period of sessions, and will outline an action plan for the year 2010.
Those groups are one of the Assembly's important tools to establish and consolidate the relations with other parliaments in the world and exchange mutually beneficial experiences.
The legislators are working divided into six plenaries, according to the relevant regions that have this kind of agreements with other legislatures.
On Thursday, they were focused on the International Relation Commission session, devoted to debate about the actions taken so far in the struggle for the release of five Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the United States.
An important speech was that by Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon, who said US President Barack Obama lack pretexts now to refuse to free those who were unfairly sentenced.
He also said that although they are demagogically asking the president in the United States to wait for the end of a legal process in court, it is not a valid reason anymore in this case.
Obama does not have to wait for anything, because as re-sentencing Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino was ordered, all the legal steps to follow have already came to an end, he explained.
Meanwhile, regarding Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, the two other prisoners, the issue was closed in the summer of 2008, he said.
Alarcon also said that from now on, it will be a political battle, due to the lack of pretexts to excuse Obama from doing his duty of releasing the five Cubans unfairly imprisoned.
The most important aspect in the recent re-sentencing process was that the US government, through its Attorney General, repeated publicly several times for the minutes that it was feeling the pressure of international solidarity, thus it considered necessary to impose lighter sentences, he stated.
This is an indicator of what the way to follow is, to increase solidarity, because it has shown and the United States admitted that it had to yield or adjust to the international pressure, Alarcon asserted.
If we are able to increase the solidarity that forced the US government to pretend to be flexible and make more people in the United States to learn about the issue, we would reach victory, he concluded.
Those groups are holding their sessions at the capital's Conference Center, as part of the works prior to the legislative authority's ordinary period of sessions, and will outline an action plan for the year 2010.
Those groups are one of the Assembly's important tools to establish and consolidate the relations with other parliaments in the world and exchange mutually beneficial experiences.
The legislators are working divided into six plenaries, according to the relevant regions that have this kind of agreements with other legislatures.
On Thursday, they were focused on the International Relation Commission session, devoted to debate about the actions taken so far in the struggle for the release of five Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the United States.
An important speech was that by Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon, who said US President Barack Obama lack pretexts now to refuse to free those who were unfairly sentenced.
He also said that although they are demagogically asking the president in the United States to wait for the end of a legal process in court, it is not a valid reason anymore in this case.
Obama does not have to wait for anything, because as re-sentencing Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino was ordered, all the legal steps to follow have already came to an end, he explained.
Meanwhile, regarding Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, the two other prisoners, the issue was closed in the summer of 2008, he said.
Alarcon also said that from now on, it will be a political battle, due to the lack of pretexts to excuse Obama from doing his duty of releasing the five Cubans unfairly imprisoned.
The most important aspect in the recent re-sentencing process was that the US government, through its Attorney General, repeated publicly several times for the minutes that it was feeling the pressure of international solidarity, thus it considered necessary to impose lighter sentences, he stated.
This is an indicator of what the way to follow is, to increase solidarity, because it has shown and the United States admitted that it had to yield or adjust to the international pressure, Alarcon asserted.
If we are able to increase the solidarity that forced the US government to pretend to be flexible and make more people in the United States to learn about the issue, we would reach victory, he concluded.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
18/12/2009