Salvador's Flores Now Says: No Relations with Cuba Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [Since El Salvador has been working hand-in-glove with the terrorists in Miami, allowing bombers and their masters to roam around freely, often with forged passports, Flores' decision not to proceed with diplomatic relations might not be bad news. It will deprive him of an embassy in Havana from which to hatch plots with the US Interest Section.] source - JosePertierra@aol.com EFE - 25 April 2002 EL SALVADOR: Flores will not resume diplomatic relations with Cuba. San Salvador, Apr 24 (EFE) - Salvadoran President Francisco Flores on Wednesday said his country would not resume diplomatic relations with Cuba during the remainder of his term, which ends in May 2004. El Salvador severed diplomatic ties with Cuba in 1959, the year Cuban leader Fidel Castro took power and installed a communist government. Castro's recent behavior, in particular his recording - and later divulging - of a private telephone conversation with Mexican President Vicente Fox, "break all norms of responsibility, discretion and respect that should exist in relations between two leaders," Flores told the press. The Salvadoran president also referred to the escalation of tensions between Cuba and Uruguay, which culminated Tuesday when President Jorge Batlle announced that his country had decided to break ties with Havana. Cuban officials recently lambasted the Uruguayan government for sponsoring a U.N resolution suggesting that the Castro regime improve human righs on the island. The resolution, narrowly approved by the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission by a vote of 23 to 21 in Geneva last week, urged the communist government to give the Cuban people greater civil and political rights, as well as allow a U.N. representative to visit the island, a suggestion Havana rejected. "In the case of Uruguay, it is an insult for Castro to call the government a lackey, ...that's an insult to the nation," Flores said. "It is absolutely intolerable that a head of state show such a lack of respect to another country." Flores also made reference to a verbal confrontation he had with Castro during the Ibero-American Summit in Panama in 2000, where he had sponsored an anti-terrorism resolution. At the time, the Cuban leader accused the Salvadoran government of allowing anti-Castro "terrorists" to act with impunity in El Salvador. Acting on a tip from Cuban intelligence, Panamanian police arrested a group of individuals accused of plotting to assassinate Castro at the summit in Panama City. (c) Copyright 2002. EFE News Services (U.S.) Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.efenews.com. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytcari-04.25.02-19:44:37-2589