CUBAN LIBRARIES SOLIDARITY GROUP
PRESS RELEASE

June 13, 2003
"Statement by the participants in the III International Convention on Culture and Development."
National News Agency, Havana

The pro-war leaders of Washington, embarked into the irrational
quest of imposing to the XXI Century and the third millenniumn
their empire to all the world, are continuing to carry on their
project of the ENDLESS WAR.

Their campaign of destruction in Iraq , that brought the repudiation
of Mankind, is not over yet and they are now aiming at new targets,
the INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC OF CUBA, that they could not dominate
during more than 40 years, despite having done all kinds of
possible provocations.

Cuba is now in the gunsight of their escalation of negotiating the
principle of sovereignty of the nations and the self determination
of the peoples.

The superpower that is the aggressor, taking into account the
difficulties it had with its European partners in the case of Iraq,
is now imposing them to be accomplices of their new conquers, and
decided to use Cuba as a trade in to go over disagreements and
begin together a new colonization of all the countries that reject
the old slavery dressed up with pseudo-modern clothing.

The governments of the European Union, under the power of Bush and
his clique, are now obedient and submissive to the super-power.

In order to gain grace with the superpower, and participate in the
loot, they approve the anti-Cuban attack, that would be the prelude
of new aggressions, calculated to end up into a second Iraq.

CUBA WILL NEVER BE A SECOND IRAQ !!!

We are sure that the peoples of the Earth, that represent in its
more pure form the feelings of Mankind, will go out to the streets
of the five continents, as they did before during the invasion of
Iraq to say in all possible tones " NO TO THE WAR , YES TO PEACE ".

There is no doubt that the decision of the European Union does not
interprets the will of the peoples of that continent, linked in so
many ways to the respect of the nations, as part of a universal
culture and a common mankind.

The defiance against the world is of the most grave nature. The
response must be immediate and massive, because what is really
happening is that the future of mankind is being decided in the
new millenniumn.

The peoples are anxious to be free and soverign, and the persons
want to live as human beings, with dignity and respect. They will
stand up and win.

Signed by Volodia Teitelboim, Thiago de Mello, Marcelino Dos Santos, Keith Ellis, Santiago García, Jaime Lozada, Raúl Pérez Torres and more of 300 intelectuals participants in
III International Convention on Culture and Development in Havana.

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