BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Cuba disagreed over the communist island's human rights policy on Monday but a senior EU official made clear he opposed any move to resume sanctions lifted last year.
EU Aid Commissioner Louis Michel called instead for more dialogue with the Caribbean island and diplomats said the Union was unlikely to revert to sanctions next month when it reviews the decision to lift them.
"Our views did converge on the issues of climate change and U.N. reform; they did not in the area of human rights," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout said after EU officials held talks with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.
"We came back to the issue of political prisoners in Cuba and their health, and the answer we got was that in Cuba there are no political prisoners," he told reporters.
Despite this, Kohout said the talks had been "a real dialogue, not just two monologues."
The 27 EU member states agreed last June to scrap sanctions on Cuba to try to encourage democratic reforms, but decided to review the decision annually.
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"Cuba is ready to normalize relations, to establish a new start in the relationships between the European Union and Cuba," Rodriguez said
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