Bi-lateral relations between the governments of Spain and Cuba are at a delicate crossroads as a result of another diplomatic confrontation which remains difficult to assess. In less than a week, the Cuban government has canceled two meetings with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the recent meeting between the Spanish Secretary of State Bernardino León and the internal Cuban dissidence during the Fourteenth Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) celebrated in Havana in mid-September in which Spain was invited to attend. A few hours after seeing dissidents of diverse political views in the Spanish Embassy on September 14, the government of Fidel Castro suspended a pre-arranged meeting Bernardino León and Cuban vice-minister Eumelio Caballero. Last week, another reunion between Cuban foreign minister Felipe Pérez Roque and his Spanish counterpart Miguel Ángel Moratinos, that was scheduled to take place during the sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, wherein bilateral discussion were to be discussed. Spanish diplomatic sources confirm that both meetings did not take place because of a decision by Cuban authorities. Source: El Pais

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