Cubas point person on U.S. relations says anything is up for discussion as the two countries move to re-establish diplomatic ties, from anti-drug cooperation to joint environmental agreements. But theres at least one area where Cuba appears unwilling to budge: Asylum for fugitives whom the U.S. has long sought to extradite from the communist-run country. Every nation has sovereign and legitimate rights to grant political asylum to people it considers to have been persecuted, the Cuban Foreign Ministrys head of North American affairs, Josefina Vidal, told The Associated Press. #PardonAssataShakur
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:31:57 +0000