MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Foreign Ministry says the United States is prepared to take in Cuban political prisoners following their release from jail.
A ministry spokesman said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos in a phone conversation that the U.S. would be prepared to accept dissidents so long as the transfer did not break any laws.
The spokesman said Clinton had congratulated Moratinos for Spain’s joint effort with the Roman Catholic church to arrange the release of dissidents arrested in a March 2003 crackdown.
Spain has so far accepted 25 Cuban dissidents, but some have refused release, saying they would only go to the U.S.
The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with government policy.
