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08/23/94
10:46
202 647 0244
PA/PRS
002
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
DPC #121
MONDAY, AUGUST 22, L994, 1:39 P. M.
(ON THE RECORD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)
MS. SHELLY: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm pleased to begin today's press briefing by introducing
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Peter
Tarnoff, Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior
Director Democracy Mort Halperin, and Commissioner for the
Immigration and Naturalization Service Doris Meissner who
are here to address the Cuban issue.
Under Secretary Tarnoff will begin with some remarks,
after which all three will be prepared to take your
questions. Following this, I will address your questions on
other issues, should you decide that you have any. Thank
you very much.
UNDER SECRETARY TARNOFF: Thank you, Christine. Good
afternoon. Why don't I begin with a statement and then, as
Christine indicated, we will be available for your questions.
For over 30 years the United States has had a policy
of promoting peaceful change in Cuba. The measures
announced by the President over the past few days are fully
consistent with this policy. They are designed to control
unauthorized migration to help address the humanitarian
plight of desperate people and to keep the Castro regime
from benefiting from its abuse of human rights.
By encouraging Cuban citizens to put to sea in flimsy
vessels, the regime has callously endangered the lives of
thousands. The fact that 50 many are willing to take such
an extreme risk is a sign of their belief that meaningful
political and economic change in Cuba is not possible under
the present regime.
Fidel Castro has spoken correctly of the Cuban people
as the country's leading resource. But by his attempt to
use unregulated emigration in order to create a safety valve
for his regime, he is sacrificing that very resource.
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