Cuba and Mexico to return ambassadors in bid to end diplomatic row
Friday, May 28, 2004
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AFP): Mexico and Cuba
have agreed to end a diplomatic dispute following comments by Cuban leader
Fidel Castro and to send their ambassadors back to their posts, Cuban Foreign
Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Thursday.
Perez Roque made the announcement following a meeting with Mexico's Foreign
Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez. Both are in
Guadalajara for a summit on Friday of European Union, Latin American and
Caribbean nations. Perez Roque said the
Mexican minister had expressed his willingness to visit Cuba.
The crisis between the two erupted at the start of May after Mexico expelled
the Cuban ambassador and several diplomats, accusing them of interference in
Mexican internal affairs.
Peru also expelled the Cuban ambassador and
recalled its envoy to Havana. Mexico and Peru
were angered by Castro's May Day speech blasting them for having voted for an
April 15 resolution condemning Cuba before the UN Human Rights Commission in
Geneva. Cuba has been increasingly isolated
from Latin America and Europe since the arrests of 75 Cuban dissidents who
were summarily tried and given harsh prison sentences a year ago.
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