Jerzy BUZEK, EP President, speaks to the press after his meeting with Cuban political prisoners, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

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EU - Cuba (T)

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BUZEK, Jerzy (EPP, PL)

EU - Cuba: extracts from the press conference by Jerzy BUZEK, EP President after his meeting with Cuban political prisoners

SOUNDBITE (English), Jerzy Karol BUZEK, EP President, Freedom cannot be handed out in small rations. Cuban peoples should enjoy their basic human rights, freedoms and solidarity in their own country, not in exile.

SOUNDBITE (English), Jerzy Karol BUZEK, EP President, The release of the prisoners is a positive step. The European Parliament calls again for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Cuba.

SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Normando HERNANDEZ, Thanks all the efforts that the EP President is doing for freedom in Cuba, the Sakharov Prize to Osvaldo Payas and the 'Ladies in White'. On the message from other political prisoners still in jail and from the Cuban people : not to change the EU possition on Cuba.