-DATE-
19910117
-YEAR-
1991
-DOCUMENT_TYPE-
-AUTHOR-
-HEADLINE-
Castro Expresses `Deep Bitterness' Over War
-PLACE-
CARIBBEAN / Cuba
-SOURCE-
Havana International Service
-REPORT_NBR-
FBIS-LAT-91-012
-REPORT_DATE-
19910117
-HEADER-
BRS Assigned Document Number:    000000939
Report Type:         Daily Report             AFS Number:     PA1701012691
Report Number:       FBIS-LAT-91-012          Report Date:    17 Jan 91
Report Series:       Daily Report             Start Page:     2
Report Division:     CARIBBEAN                End Page:       2
Report Subdivision:  Cuba                     AG File Flag:   
Classification:      UNCLASSIFIED             Language:       Spanish
Document Date:       17 Jan 91
Report Volume:       Thursday Vol VI No 012

Dissemination:  

City/Source of Document:   Havana International Service

Report Name:   Latin America

Headline:   Castro Expresses `Deep Bitterness' Over War

Source Line:   PA1701012691 Havana International Service in Spanish 0100 GMT 17
Jan 91

-TEXT-
FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE:
1.  [Text] Cuban President Fidel Castro stated his sorrow and deep bitterness
on Wednesday 16 January, minutes after learning about the attacks on Kuwait and
Iraq that started the war in the Persian Gulf.

2.  The war is a failure for the United Nations and for the politicians of our
times, the president stated in a news conference--where he arrived
suddenly--scheduled to discuss the Pan-American Games to be held in Havana next
August.

3.  The war in the Persian Gulf should have never started, and it was
unnecessary because the possibilities for a peaceful solution, although
seemingly more remote, had not disappeared completely, Castro said. I am
experiencing the same feeling of sorrow and deep bitterness that the world must
be feeling, he reasserted.
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