Cuba signs U.N. rights pacts that Castro opposed (Reuters)

By newscrape.com in Politics on February 28th, 2008

The new president of Cuba, Raul Castro, smiles in the Cuban National Assembly February 24. Raul Castro prepares Tuesday for his first diplomatic encounter as president of a post-Fidel Cuba, at a planned meeting with the number two official from the Vatican.(AFP/File/Ismael Francisco)Reuters - Cuba signed two U.N. human rights pacts on Thursday that long-time president Fidel Castro, replaced by his brother just four days ago, had refused to endorse for more than three decades.


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