(23 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega greeting Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, Ortega shaking hands with another
2. Cutaway of media
3. Ortega and Perez Roque sitting down
4. Wide of meeting
5. Close up of Perez Roque
6. Wide of meeting
7. Ortega and Perez Roque shaking hands
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Felipe Perez Roque, Cuban Foreign Minister:
"The fact that the US eliminates this detention centre in Guantanamo, where prisoners have been tortured and humiliated, is a positive thing and a decision we see with good eyes. From Cuba's point of view, this is not enough we now have to close the Naval base that the US has in the country, which they do not need for any military use, and return this territory to Cuba. We do aspire to some day have sovereignty over this part of our territory, where against our will this US military base has been functioning."
9. Perez Roque walking away
STORYLINE
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on Thursday praised US President Barack Obama's order to close Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba within a year, but called on the new administration to take the order one step further and close the entire Naval base there.
In addition, the territory on which the Naval base sits should also be returned to Cuban rule, he said.
Cuba aspires to "some day have sovereignty over this part of our territory," he said.
Perez Roque noted that the military base there had been functioning "against our will" and was not needed for military use he said.
The foreign minister made the comments after meeting with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainees, human-rights advocates and government officials from around the world welcomed the announcement that the prison camp would be closed within a year.
Moving quickly to reverse many former Bush administration policies, Obama signed orders on Thursday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, to review military trials of terror suspects, and to ban torture as a method of interrogation of suspects.
In other orders signed on Thursday, Obama created a task force to recommend policies on handling terror suspects detained in the future, and directed personnel to follow the US Army Field Manual guidelines on methods during interrogations.
The manual prohibits threats, coercion and physical abuse, though the administration is planning a study of more aggressive interrogation methods that could be added to the manual.
Obama had already on the day of his inauguration suspended trials for Guantanamo inmates for 120 days pending a review of the military tribunals.
About 245 detainees currently are held at Guantanamo, out of some 800 who were sent there during the Bush administration.
Many have been detained for years without trial.
The Obama administration draft order notes that some of those held at the site have been there for more than six years, and most for at least four years.

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