The United States should stop sending money to "mercenaries" that have fermented internal destabilization of Cuba, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Thursday.
The money has been sent by "terrorists" in Miami to "small groups (of dissidents)" through Michael Parmly, chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba, Perez Roque told a news conference.
Parmly's acts violated Cuban and U.S. laws, as well as international norms and agreements, including the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations that bans diplomats from breaking the laws of the receiving state or interfering in its internal affairs, he added.
"We hope that (U.S. President) George W. Bush's government ... takes necessary measures to rectify the conduct of its diplomats in Cuba," Perez Roque said.
"We expect a thorough investigation from the U.S. authorities and the results should be made public," he said.
According to the foreign minister, Parmly was involved in at least three money-deliveries to dissidents, which were described by the government as "counter-revolutionary or mercenary small groups" in the service of countries like the United States.
The U.S. Interests Section in Cuba "encourages, organizes, funds and follows in detail" the dissidents' activities "to destabilize the internal situation," he said.
During the past three days, the Cuban government released e-mails, letters, videos and audio tapes which it says proved that Parmly had carried funds to activist Martha Beatriz Roque, who allegedly passed them on to other dissidents.
But the U.S. State Department has denied wrongdoing, saying it has long provided humanitarian assistance to families of imprisoned dissidents in Cuba.
Source:Xinhua
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