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Caribbean & Central America - January 2005
CUBA: EU suspends sanctions but sticks with dissidents
The foreign ministers of the member states of the European Union suspended diplomatic sanctions on Cuba for a period of six months on 31 January. The EU's decision to revise its policy on Cuba was a reward for Spain's dogged insistence that the sanctions, which were imposed in June 2003 after 75 political dissidents were rounded up and imprisoned without trial, have achieved little.
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