Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday cited a report carried in a Spanish daily as saying leaders of the United States and Britain and Spanish had met for a "plot" to start the 2003 war on Iraq to get rid of its former leader Saddam Hussein.
U.S. President George W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar had met for the plot at Portugal's Azores islands on March 16, 2003, three days prior to launching the war on Iraq, he cited Spanish daily El Pais as saying.
The article carried in El Pais narrates how the leaders of the three countries unilaterally decided to launch the aggression, said Castro in his weekly "Reflections" published by local press.
The three men had infringed on the functions of the UN Security Council by so doing, he added.
Castro, 81, temporarily handed over power to his younger brother Raul Castro, Cuba's vice president and defense minister, on July 31 last year, due to an intestinal hemorrhage. He has rarely been seen in public ever since.
Source: Xinhua
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