Official note from the Ministry of Informatics and Communications of the Republic of Cuba

IN the framework of the 12th International Informatics Convention and Exposition 2007, Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Cuba’s minister of informatics and communications, met with Fabio Leite, assistant director of the Radiocommunication Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and special envoy of ITU General Secretary Hamadoun Touré. In their meeting, Valdés and Leite discussed different aspects of mutual interest, including expanding the ITU’s cooperation with Cuba.

In particular, they talked about the illegal broadcasts that the United States has been transmitting into Cuba for several decades, with the objective of destabilizing our country’s internal order.

Leite was able to verify the truthfulness of arguments provided by Cuba in its repeated exposures of this flagrant violation of its national radio spectrum, and confirmed complaints made in this regard to the ITU’s pertinent agencies.

This radio and television aggression infringes on the principles of international law that govern relations between states and the standards and regulations of the ITU, which clearly establish the conduct to be followed by member states of that United Nations organization.

At the next World Radiocommunication Conference, to be held at the end of this year, this matter will be taken up by recommendation of the ITU’s 2006 Plenipotentiary Conference, held in November 2006 in Turkey.

At every possible forum and space, Cuba will continue to denounce this violation of its airwaves.

Ministry of Informatics and Communications

Havana, February 19, 2007

Translated by Granma International