Josep Borrell to Díaz-Canel: "Allow the demonstrations and listen to the discontent"

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The EU is closely monitoring what is happening in

, it is gathering information from its mission on the ground and with data from all the community embassies on the island and has asked the government of the dictatorship to allow the demonstrations and take note of the messages, but

. This was summarized this Monday by the High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, after the last meeting of the season of the 27 Foreign Ministers. "I want to express the right of the people to express their opinions peacefully and I want to ask to the Government

. "

The Cuban issue was not on the agenda or on the agenda, not even in a mixed bag known as current affairs because "the news that has arrived has been produced

" explained the Spaniard. . "But naturally I have made reference to these circumstances and I have commented with the colleagues the news that was arriving", has added.

The most repeated word on your team is "caution

.

They do not know well what is happening and how it will evolve and in Brussels they do not want to rush. He knows that the pressure from Washington and Miami is going to be very strong these days and the experts of the Foreign Action Service do not want to close doors and cut the strings with Havana.

and until correctly calibrating what is happening there will be caution. But what Borrell himself and his colleagues are clear about is that it is "a manifestation of discontent that, as far as we know, has reached a dimension that has not been known since 1994." And if that is the case, it could force a turn in the strategy of relations with the island and on the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement signed three years ago.

"CARE AND ATTENTION"

"

, protests against the lack of medicines, the spread of those affected by the Covid and also protests against the regime. And there has been a response from the forces of order that by the moment has occurred in such a way that it has not meant particularly violent encounters due to the news I have, "Borrell pointed out, admitting that" it must be said with great care and attention because events may change in the next few hours.

In March Borrell was very close to dismissing the EU ambassador to Cuba, Alberto Navarro, after a controversial letter sent to the White House requesting the end of the economic embargo, but after his apologies and being "duly reprimanded", the diplomat will continue until this summer. Several countries, and various political groups in the European Parliament, have pressed for a change in the strategy of the high representative,

and although it has many gaps and there are areas that it does not cover or solve, it is one of the best instruments available to maintain bridges with Havana.

Today, Ciudadanos has called at the headquarters of the European Parliament a demonstration of rejection

, denouncing hundreds of arrests and the use of force of which Borrell has no information so far. .

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