Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SEOUL1373
2006-04-25 07:16:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Seoul
Cable title:
LIBERTAD ACT: ROK HAS MINIMAL RELATIONS WITH CUBA
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UNCLAS SEOUL 001373
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
FOR WHA/CCA
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL ETRD ETTC CU KS
SUBJECT: LIBERTAD ACT: ROK HAS MINIMAL RELATIONS WITH CUBA
REF: A. STATE 57782
¶B. 05 SEOUL 2836
Per REF A, poloff spoke, on April 24, with Chu Cheol-wan,
Deputy Director of the Central America and Carribbean
Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),on
the relationship between Cuba and the ROK. Chu stated that
the ROK did not have any business investments in Cuba and
that the two governments had not signed any trade agreements
(see REF B). Through MOFAT's Korea International Cooperation
Agency (KOICA),the ROKG's international assistance arm, 13
Cubans have come to Korea for job training between 1991 and
¶2005. No Cubans are scheduled to come to the ROK in 2006.
The ROKG has continously supported the U.S.-led resolution on
human rights in Cuba since 1989. There have not been any
high-level diplomatic visits between Cuba and the ROK in the
past six months.
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