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Press Release

The EU's policy towards Cuba: "Heading for a relationship of mutual respect"

Conference organized by the Group for the Friendship and Solidarity with the People of Cuba in the European Parliament (E) and the Grupo Sur

18th September 2007, Room ASP5G2, Interpretation in ES+FR+EN+DE+PT+EL

Opening session

•  Miguel Ángel Martínez, MEP-PES, VP of EP, President, Group for Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba

•  Willy Meyer, MEP-GUE, Vice-president, Group for Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba Cuba

•  Marie-Anne Isler Beguin, MEP-Greens/EFA, Vice-president, Group for Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba

•  Iosu Perales, Coordinator Grupo Sur

•  Elio Rodríguez Perdomo, Ambassador of Cuba in Brussels

Nature and assessment of the EU's common position: a critical overview

•  Chair: Gabriele Zimmer, MEP-GUE

•  Stefano Manservisi, General Director DG Development

•  Willy Meyer

•  Kenia Serrano, MP, member of the Committee of External Relations in the Cuban National Assembly

The consequences of the common position for development cooperation between the EU and Cuba

•  Chair: Pierre Galand, former Senator

•  Xavier Declerq,  OXFAM Solidarité

•  María Teresa Planas, President of the Cuban Association of Animal Production NGO

The Torricelli and Helms-Burton laws: impact of extraterritoriality in Europe

•  Chair: Marie-Anne Isler Beguin

•  Robert Muse, US lawyer

•  Leonel González, MP, Coord., Comm. External Relations Cuban National Assembly member of EUROLAT

Cuba's achievement Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and contribution in other developing countries

•  Chair: Jens Holm, MEP-GUE

•  Leonela Inés Relys Días, Ministry of Education of Cuba, author reading and writing methodYo sí puedo

•  José Moisés Martín, Director of ACSUR - Las Segovias

New framework EU-Cuba relations based on mutual respect: problems to overcome and recommendations

•  Chair: Alain Hutchinson, MEP-PES

•  Leonel González

•  Claudio Fava, MEP-PES

Final remarks - closing ceremony

•  Despina Marcou, EEDDA

•  Eusebio Leal, MP and Historian of the City of Havana

•  Miguel Ángel Martínez

For registration and more information, please contact:

Lourdes Castro G. Grupo SUR

European Parliament: Cuba Conference

By Clara Sastre