This Government attempts to act with its own set of rules every chance it gets. I cannot accept this as the status quo. By merely accepting Cubas actions we accept behavior offensive to anyone with a sense of human dignity and we accept a callous suspension of an immigration agreement which took painstaking effort to realize. I cannot sit quietly while the Cuban Government reneges on its agreement to take back the Mariel criminals and while it adopts measures which denies basic human rights to its own people. When the Cuban Government denounces Radio Marti and attempts to block its reception. these actions flies in the face of article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. This article acknowledges the internationally recognized right of all people to "seek. receive and impart information through any media regardless of frontiers." When the Cuban Government suspends the immigration accord and denies its own people the right to unhindered immigration. it again mocks an internationally recognized right. The right of all people to freedom of movement. including the right to leave any country. including ones own. The Cuban Governments linking of Radio Marti to the Immigration accord Is inappropriate. It is using Radio Marti as an excuse for going back on an agreement of mutual benefit to both our countries. It Is a reminder of the paranoia that exists In all totalitarian regimes when Its peoples are afforded the right to the access of information and the common exchange of ideas.
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