Fascist America?
Russia and Communist Cuba Join in
"Anti-Fascist-Front"
April 29, 2003
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2003 International News Analysis Today
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov "Praised the initiative to form a world anti-fascist front," following
a series of negotiations in Havana with the government
of Communist Cuba, according to official Cuban sources.
Fedotov's visit to Cuba ended Monday, April 28, 2003.
The "anti-fascist front" is directed at "unilateral actions that lead to aggressions
such as that of the United States against Iraq," and
is in support of "reinforcing the role of the United
Nations" as the final arbiter of global affairs, according
to Radio Havana Cuba, the official broadcasting service
of the Cuban government.
Expressing his support for the "anti-fascist front," Fedotov issued a thinly
veiled denunciation of American involvement in Iraq,
declaring that "the most important goal is to insure
that the world community not be submitted to unilateral
actions," RHC reported.
Observers note that Fedotov's comments come as the United States and Russia are cooperating closely in keeping the International Space Station functioning after the U.S. shuttle disaster, as well as in other areas of science and high technology.
Moscow and Havana jointly agreed "to activate our forces in the United Nations" to advance UN supremacy in global affairs, and promised "to begin a political dialogue at the highest level between our two countries," as a means of coordinating increasingly close Russian and Cuban relations.
The "anti-fascist front" is a product of "Cuban artists and intellectuals,"
asserted RHC.
The initiative by "Cuban artists and intellectuals"
to form the "anti-fascist front" comes shortly after
the government of Cuban President Fidel Castro issued
lengthy prison terms - some up to 28 years - for 78
anti-Communist Cuban dissidents, and follows condemnation
for the convictions by world leaders- including Pope
John Paul II.
The Havana meeting of Cuban and Russian foreign ministry officials comes one month after the March meeting in Moscow between Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.
At the Moscow meeting, Russia declared that Cuba is its "key partner in Latin America." The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a press statement referring to an "active political dialogue based on mutual trust" between Russia and Cuba.
"The two countries have similar or identical stances on a whole number of global political issues. Most importantly…on the construction of a fair and stable world order," the Russian Foreign Ministry declared.
The "construction of a fair and stable world order" for Cuba and Russia includes sophisticated intelligence operations against the United States.
Cuban operates a sophisticated intelligence program against the U.S. One of its highly placed agents, Ana Belen Montes, worked at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency before her arrest and conviction of espionage in October 2002. The "Wasp Network," a Cuban espionage group spying on U.S. military facilities, was uncovered by the FBI and five of its leaders convicted in 2001.
In 2001 the U.S. intelligence community was rocked by the discovery that top
FBI intelligence agent Robert Hanssen spied on his country
for Moscow for 20 years.
On the island of Cuba, Russia still operates the Lourdes spy base, while Russia's close ally, China, is constructing a similar base not far away from Lourdes.
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