The PP Delegation in the European Parliament has requested that the EU excuse the local area minister in Havana, Alberto Navarro, for having situated himself with his most recent activities close by the Castro system. In a letter shipped off the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, by a few MEPs from the PP and the European People’s Group – and endorsed by individuals from different gatherings like Renew and ECR-, the cooperation of Navarro is censured, alongside too many specialists, scholarly people, and experts on the island, in a letter shipped off the enhanced US president, Joe Biden, mentioning that the US ban on the island is lifted.
For the PP, this “comprises a genuine truth in a terrible and unpredictable line of activity on what ought to be the guard of our inclinations and qualities as an association of vote-based states and law.” As per the MEPs, Navarro attempted to get his “insane activity” as to Biden to be upheld by strategic agents of other EU part nations, who declined to sign the letter proposed by the minister, they said in an articulation. No doubt our minister in Havana takes political situations following a system that doesn’t regard or shield common freedoms or vote based majority and permits licenses more ordinary of a political pioneer than a conciliatory agent,” the signatory MEPs condemned of the letter, among whom are the well known Spanish Dolors Montserrat, Esteban Gonzalez Pons, Antonio Lopez-Isturiz and Leopoldo Lopez Gil.
Navarro’s Torts
MEPs portray Navarro’s letter to Biden as “one more demonstration in the not insignificant rundown of complaints that Ambassador Navarro has caused on the European Parliament.” Among them, they refer to the event where Navarro impeded the interest in a conference coordinated by the Delegation for Central America of the European Parliament of the beneficiaries of the Sakharov Prize for common liberties allowed by this establishment. “In particular, boycotting and denying admittance to the EU offices in Havana to the victors and visitors to take an interest electronically in that meeting,” they call attention to.
Moreover, the MEPs reprove that the leader of the Ladies dressed in White of Cuba, Berta Soler, who got accurately the Sakharov Prize in 2005, “has not been joined in” by the staff of the European international haven in Havana coordinated by Navarro, regardless of the various captures of which both she and different individuals from her association are casualties. The letter additionally reprimands that the European consulate in Havana doesn’t distribute the goals of the European Parliament, including the goal of November 29, 2019, on the discretionary confinement of José Daniel Ferrer and the infringement of common freedoms in Cuba.
For every one of these reasons, the MEPs who marked the letter have thought that Navarro “isn’t deserving of the great capacities that he holds and is depended with”, for which they have asked Josep Borrell, top of the EU unfamiliar assistance, to continue “to his nearby substitution.Several weeks prior, different associations like the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) censured Navarro’s investment in that open letter, sent on February 9, condemning the “rehashed inclination of Mr. Navarro”, which concurs “with the hypothesizes of the Cuban government “, and that, in the assessment of the NGO,” is a long way from the job of a negotiator who ought to address the majority rule esteems of the EU and from whom at any rate a specific humility legitimate to his profession is normal.
San Isidro Movement and 27-N
In equal, the PP MEPs, along with MEPs from Renew and ECR, have sent a parliamentary inquiry to Josep Borrell in which his assessment is mentioned on what has been the advancement as far as common freedoms and human and political rights in Cuba since that in December 2016 it would sign a Political Dialog and Cooperation Agreement with the EU. They have additionally asked which Cuban common society associations the EU Embassy in Havana has met with since 2019, and what steps the Embassy has taken notwithstanding the captures and provocation endured by the island’s Sakharov grants and individuals from the San Isidro Movement and 27-N.
