British organization against Bush´s Plan

 “The UK’s interests are best served by peace and stability in the Caribbean, not war and confrontation. But the way things are going that is what is going to happen,” says the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, a nationwide organisation of MPs, trade unions and interested individuals which lobbies for an end to the US economic blockade of the Caribbean island.
 
Ian Gibson MP, Chair of the All Party Group on Cuba, voiced the concerns of many people here in the UK: “Apart from being a clear breach of the UN Charter, it is a course of action that will be rejected by the vast majority of Cubans. The outcome will almost certainly be conflict in the island. Such an event would destroy peace and stability in the Caribbean and will severely affect the interests of European powers with interests there. Cuba poses no threat to any other nation and its right to self determination should be protected.”(…)
 
Cuba Solidarity Campaign Director, Rob Miller, says the consequence of the policy could be war: “The stated goal of the US report is to help what it calls a ‘speedy transition’ on the island towards ‘democracy and political freedom’ but this is just Bushspeak. What the US is planning is regime change - by military occupation if necessary. Britain should distance itself immediately from this dangerous madness”
 
The recommendations, which include the creation of an $80m (£43m) fund to “promote democracy” in Cuba, are contained in the latest report compiled by the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba; a body created by President George Bush three years ago. A classified annex to the document lists future measures the US should consider further to undermine the Cuban government.
 
The group is co-chaired by the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and by the US Commerce Secretary, Carlos Gutierrez, a hard-line Cuban-American émigré. The report was compiled by other well-known anti-Castro Cuban émigrés, and as such reflects an extreme position on policy towards the island aimed at assuaging the powerful Florida-based anti-Castro lobby.
 
The president of the Cuban parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, has condemned the report, describing it as an act of war. "What's most important is that they admit to a secret plan to overthrow another government," Mr Alarcon told reporters. "What on earth could the secret part say when the public part violates all kinds of international law?"(…)