Bush vows to create 'peaceful' Cuba
From correspondents in Washington
May 20, 2006
PRESIDENT George W. Bush said overnight the United States was committed
to helping Cubans create "peaceful" government in a message ahead of the
island's independence day.
"The United States is committed to advancing the values that sustain
liberty and helping establish a just and peaceful government in Cuba,"
Mr Bush said in a message for the 104th anniversary of Cuban
independence, to be celebrated later today.
"On this anniversary of Cuba's independence, we look forward to the day
when Cuba embraces democracy and human rights for all her people," he said.
Mr Bush's message came after the State Department announced the
postponement of a report from the Commission for Assistance to a Free
Cuba, an advisory panel created in 2003 to help hasten the demise of
Fidel Castro's regime.
Following recommendations from the panel in 2004, Mr Bush tightened the
four-decade-old US embargo against the communist-led island.
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