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	Council of State of Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Council of State is a thirty-one member body of the Republic of Cuba elected by the National Assembly of People’s Power.
		It has the authority to exercise most legislative power between sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, subject to its approval, and to call the National Assembly of People’s Power into session between its scheduled twice yearly sessions.
		The President, the Secretary, the First Vice President, and the five Vice Presidents are also members of the Council of Ministers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Council_of_State_of_Cuba (137 words)

	Cuba (08/05)
		In response, the United States imposed an embargo on Cuba in October 1960, and, in response to Castro's provocations, broke diplomatic relations on January 3, 1961.
		Cuba is a totalitarian state controlled by Fidel Castro, who is chief of state, head of government, First Secretary of the PCC, and commander in chief of the armed forces.
		Cuba is a member of the Organization of American States (OAS), although its present government has been excluded from participation since 1962 for incompatibility with the principles of the inter-American system.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2886.htm (7561 words)

	[06 Jun 2000] GA/9717 : GROWING AWARENESS MOST PRESSING WOMEN’S PROBLEMS LACK SOLUTIONS, CUBA TELLS ‘WOMEN 2000’ ...
		It was embarrassing that some States had failed to ratify or even sign the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, she said.
		Canada’s Secretary of State on the Status of Women, Hedy Fry, said that with the blueprint of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action in hand, the special session should chart the course for a new century and build on the tenuous gains women made in the twentieth century.
		HASAN GEMICI, Minister of State Responsible for Women’s Affairs, Family and Social Services of Turkey: The full realization of the human rights of women and the girl child is a both a legal and ethical responsibility and the reforms that Turkey undertook in the cause of women’s rights have been revolutionary.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2000/20000606.ga9717.doc.html (7099 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The petitioners state further that the petition was not submitted for settlement to any other international organization of which Cuba is a member and therefore satisfies the requirement established in Article 33(1)(a) of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure.
		Cuba has been a state party to the Organization of American States (hereinafter the "OAS") since July 16, 1952, the date on which it deposited its instrument of ratification of the OAS Charter.
		This applies with even greater force to the Republic of Cuba, which was not allowed to be a state party to the Convention, or to discuss the Statute, and has no inkling of the existence of Rules of Procedure that might, apparently, be the basis for some sanction against it.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/cases/58-04.html (2657 words)

	Cuba
		Students planning to engage in such transactions must carry a letter from the licensed institution stating: 1) the institution's license number; 2) that the student is enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at the institution; and 3) that the travel is part of an educational program of that institution.
		In Cuba, hijackers will be sentenced to lengthy prison terms at a minimum, and may be subject to the death penalty; on April 11, 2003, the Government of Cuba executed three suspected hijackers, nine days after taking them into custody.
		Authorized travelers to Cuba are limited to 44 pounds of accompanied baggage per traveler unless a specific license from OFAC or the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security authorizes a higher amount.
	travel.state.gov /travel/cuba.html (5799 words)

	Cuba
		Cuba is a totalitarian state controlled by President Fidel Castro, who is Chief of State, Head of Government, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
		In September state security officials accused Manuel Antonio Brito of the Buro de Periodistas Independientes de Cuba (BPIC) of trying to provoke a war with the U.S., referring to an article he wrote about the September 11 attacks on the U.S. Brito was detained for a few hours and was not charged.
		State security officials visited some priests and pastors prior to significant religious events, ostensibly to warn them that dissidents are trying to "use the Church;" however, some critics claimed that these visits were done in an effort to foster mistrust between the churches and human rights or prodemocracy activists.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8333.htm (15852 words)

	CUBA'S REPRESSIVE MACHINERY
		Cuba retains the death penalty for several crimes.
		145 Cuba's reliance on the Council of Stateâ”an entity presided over by President Castro, selected by the Cuban National Assembly, and considered the "supreme representation of the Cuban State" under Cuban lawâ”as the ultimate arbiter in death penalty cases effectively undercuts any appearance of judicial independence.
		Cuba has not provided figures on its total prison population, much less the number of death row inmates.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/cuba/Cuba996-07.htm (1087 words)

	[12 Nov 1996] GA/9164 : ASSEMBLY AGAIN CALLS FOR END OF UNITED STATES-IMPOSED EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA, BY 137-3-25 VOTE, ...
		Cuba says provisions of the Helms-Burton Act attempt to internationalize the blockade by sanctioning countries trading or investing in Cuba, as well as enterprises, executives and their families.
		Cuba was faced with a loss of 75 per cent of its imports and almost a total loss of its export markets.
		Cuba was not against change, but it was against a blockade which prevented it from introducing changes which would improve its socialist society.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/1996/19961112.ga9164.html (7994 words)

	Cuba Business Articles Archive - Havana Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cuba may be a country of economic contradictions but the economy keeps plugging along.
		Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Investment and Cooperation will present 41 proposals for joint ventures at the eighth China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT), one of the biggest such events in Asia which ends this weekend in the port city of Xiamen.
		Cuba is stepping up efforts to make use of sugarcane derivatives for such things as medications and plastics at a time when the island's sugar industry is undergoing restructuring due to the low sugar prices on the international market.
	havanajournal.com /business_archives/A2004094 (2040 words)

	Nickel, but no dimes
		The island is the world´s sixth-biggest nickel producer and holds 30% of the world´s reserves of the metal, used in stainless steel and other alloys.
		The United States is a big nickel-importer, and Cuba´s natural market; but the trade embargo means that American firms can do no more than sniff around.
		Cuba´s former sponsor, BHP-Billiton, an Anglo-Australian group, has completed a study of a 300m-tonne deposit at San Felipe in central Cuba, but is in no hurry to invest the $1 billion needed to develop it.
	www.cubaliberal.org /english/03092001-nickel.htm (361 words)

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		The Chinese Prime Minister said he was aware of the difficult circumstances in which Cuba was attempting to boost its economy, but that he was sure the island would be successful.
		State Department spokesman Lee McClenny confirmed rumors that letters have been sent to the executives of the Israeli BM citrics company, warning them that within 45 days they will be prohibited from entering US territory if they continue investing in Cuba.
		Cuba will present conferences on women's reality on the island, the effects of Washington's blockade against Cuba and the repercussion of the economic crisis on Cuban women.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97-11cari/Radio_Havana_Cuba,_November_18,_1997_ (1673 words)

	Focus on Cuba
		On March 6, Havana's National Assembly (Cuba's unicameral parliament consisting of 609 deputies which were "voted" into office in a one-party, one-candidate election held in January) formally approved Fidel Castro for a new five-year term as president of the Council of State, the communist regime's executive ruling body.
		Moreover, Rodríguez was not re-elected to the Council of State.
		Others who have been replaced on the Council of State are Justice Minister Roberto Díaz Sotolongo, Sergio Corrieri of ICAP [Cuban Institute for Friendship Among Peoples], Caridad Diego of the Religious Affairs Office of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), and the current mayor of the City of Havana, Juan Contino.
	ctp.iccas.miami.edu /FOCUS_Web/Issue38.htm (944 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CUBA WILL BE REPRESENTED AT FIRST LADIES OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE IN SEPTEMBER Havana, May 28(RHC)-- Cuba has confirmed it will attend the Seventh Conference of First Ladies of the Americas, scheduled to take place in Panama next September.
		CUBA'S COUNCIL OF STATE TO AWARD PARTICIPANTS OF THE LITERACY CAMPAIGN Havana, May 28(RHC)-- The Cuban Council of State will award participants of the 1961 Literacy Campaign with a medal commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the creation of the Cuban Armed Forces.
		CUBA AND MEXICO AT THE NEGOTIATION TABLE Havana, May 28(RHC)-- Representatives from Mexico and Cuba are sitting down at the negotiating table in Havana exploring ways to expand bilateral trade and cooperation.
	www.radiohc.org /Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.1997/97_may/rhc-eng-05.28.97 (1195 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Cuba Special Report
		HAVANA -- Faced with a steep economic decline and punishing U.S. trade embargo, Cuba's Marxist government is embarking on its deepest and riskiest economic changes since the revolution, including legalizing the use of American dollars by Cubans.
		Carlos Lage, vice president of the Council of State and Cuba's leading economic planner, said, "Socialism is related to the state ownership of the means of production and economic planning.
		One of the fears expressed by some officials is that professionals who spent years studying, such as doctors and engineers, may leave their jobs for less prestigious but much more lucrative positions where access to dollars is greater.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/cuba/stories/econ072593.htm (1671 words)

	Council of State Names New President of Cuba's Sports Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cuba's Council of State announced on Monday that Julio Jimenez Molina will be the new President of the Cuban Sports Institute substituting Humberto Rodriguez.
		The Cuban newspaper Granma reported on Monday that Jimenez had been acting as first vice president of the sports institute since 1999 and has been a member of the Council of State since 2003.
		The new president was a student in the island's sports schools in 1964 and was part of the national basketball team for several years during which Jimenez represented the island in international competitions.
	www.ahora.cu /english/SECTIONS/sport/2005/octubre/04-10-05.htm (160 words)

	Focus on Cuba
		Overwhelmingly, according to a study conducted by Cuba's own Center for Anthropology in 2002, Cuba's fl workers were disproportionately found toiling at the lowest paying, back-breaking occupations and crowded into dilapidated dwellings in inner-city neighborhoods like Havana's Cerro, Luyano, and Guanabacoa, or in Soviet-modeled housing projects like Alamar.
		Among Cuba's prisoners of conscience are Afro-Cuban civil rights activists such as Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a physician and follower of Martin Luther King Jr.
		Cuba Transition Project staff conducted an analysis of the racial composition of the Council of State, Council of Ministers, and the Ministry of Defense/Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (active-duty senior commanding officers based on chain-of-command chart of the Cuban armed forces).
	ctp.iccas.miami.edu /FOCUS_Web/Issue42.htm (1288 words)

	Cuba Cutting Phone Service With US -- 12/08/2000
		A statement from Cuba's Council of State, which was broadcast in the wee hours of Friday morning by state-run radio and television stations, said the phone service would be suspended on December 15th.
		The government decree said ETECSA, Cuba's national telephone company, was to retain the tax revenues, which were charged on every minute of all telephone calls between the US and Cuba.
		Cuba's phone tax followed a decision by the Clinton Administration to compensate the families of those who were killed in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue incident in the Florida Straits by using frozen Cuban funds.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200012\NAT20001208a.html (473 words)

	Cuba Opposition Unveils Plan / AP - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		The document, signed by members of the illegal Democratic Solidarity and the Democratic Socialist Current political parties, was delivered last week to Cuba's Council of State, which is headed by President Fidel Castro.
		Canada, the Vatican, the United States and the European Union have demanded their release.
		Neither does a market economy in Cuba, nor guarantees for individual liberties, ``which are necessary for the prosperity of countries and individuals,'' it said.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y99/sep99/30e2.htm (370 words)

	[New-Poetry] found poem: "Biographical Notes de D. Mario Benedetti . . ." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It returns to Cuba to participate in the jury of the aid House of the Américas.
		The Council of State of Cuba grants to the Order Felix to him Varela.
		As significant examples of the great diffusion of their work are possible to indicate that in this year the truce arrives at 75ª edition, Thanks for the fire, to 46ª, the birthday of Juan Angel, to 30ª, Inventory, to 31ª, Pedro and the captain, to 15ª and the death and other surprises, to 27ª.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2003-June/013135.html (1043 words)

	granma.cu - Municipal elections called in Cuba
		The Council of State of Cuba has convened elections this April for delegates to the 169 municipal assemblies of People’s Power (local government) on the island.
		A decree signed by President Fidel Castro and circulated today by the national press affirms that voters should attend the partial elections on April 17 (the first round) to elect their representatives for a two and a half-year term.
		Partial elections take place every two and a half years in Cuba for the municipal assemblies and every five years to elect delegates to the provincial assemblies and deputies to Parliament.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2005/enero/mar4/02elec.html (284 words)

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		Members of Cuba's Parliament -- also known as the National Assembly of People's Power -- selected 31 members of the Council, which is Cuba's highest executive body.
		Elected Secretary of the Council of State was Jose Miyar.
		He said it's certain that there is a need for more education and more responsibility, but that Cuba "was not going to return to the chastity belt of the middle ages." Finally, the leader of the Cuban Revolution denied insistent press reports that he has named his brother, Raul Castro, as his successor.
	www.radiohc.org /Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.1998/98_feb/rhc-eng-02.25.98 (924 words)

	Cuba FM - live via internet! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cuba and the Caribbean Islands - from TBO.com
		President of Cuba's Council of State and Council of Ministers Fidel Castro met in Havana on Saturday with Nong Duc Manh, general s...
		President of Cuba's Council of State and Council of Ministers Fidel Castro met in Havana on Saturday with Nong Duc Manh, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, who arrived here Friday for a five-day official visit(Getty Images file)...
	archive.wn.com /2004/03/08/1400/cubafm (701 words)

	Center for International Policy
		A statement from Cuba's Council of State, read on state TV and radio, said
		In October, Cuba slapped a 10 percent tax on the cost of telephone calls
		Cuba warned at the time that all phone links could be cut if Washington
	www.ciponline.org /cuba/cubainthenews/newsarticles/rt120800phone.htm (138 words)

	Caribbean countries form regional network for risk management and prevention
		Accompanied by Bruno Moro - the UN resident coordinator in Cuba - the UN deputy secretary general for humanitarian affairs held cordial meetings with Dr. Carlos Lage, vice president of the Council of State of Cuba, and Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque.
		Egeland thanked Cuba for its support with respect to the integrity of the United Nations and the Cuban nation’s cooperation efforts in the areas of healthcare, education, and agriculture and other Millennium Development Goals in many developing countries.
		Finally, he expressed Cuba’s readiness to support this effort with all its anti-risk preparation structures and its accumulated experiences in order to ensure an effective reduction in the number of unnecessary deaths and damage caused by natural phenomena.
	www.cdera.org /cunews/news/printer_1121.php (516 words)

	China to consolidate ties with Cuba: Chinese president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As both parties adhere to socialism, explore the path of development fit for their own national conditions and are devoted to economic development to improve the people's living standards, there is a solid foundation for further cementing China-Cuba ties, Hu said.
		Given the ChiCom's desire to open a multiple front conflict using their proxies in North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria and most likely Brazil (I know there are more) before committing their own troops and showing their hand, it would be in our best interests to saturate the Chinese military centers with nuclear strikes.
		The history of Cuba as a source of instability in South America must be very tempting to China.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1226980/posts (1996 words)

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		Castro Diaz-Balart, Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and Scientific advisor of the President of the Council of State of Cuba.
		The technological, economic and social gap between rich and poor is growing at a dramatic rate.
		As a consequence of this growing inequality the world is confronting increasing violence committed by both state and non-state actors.
	www.southcentre.org /info/southbulletin/bulletin70/bulletin70-03.htm (1659 words)

	[New-Poetry] found poem: "Biographical Notes de D. Mario Benedetti . . ." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It > returns to Cuba to participate in the jury of the aid House of the > Américas.
		The Council of State of Cuba grants to the > Order Felix to him Varela.
		Decorated with the medal > Haydeé Santamaría by the Council of State of Cuba.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2003-June/013143.html (1218 words)

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