(30 Oct 2002)

1. Wide interior of foreign ministry conference room
2. Mid shot inside foreign ministry
3. Close up of Felipe Perez Roque, Cuban foreign minister
4. Mid shot of audience
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Felipe Perez Roque, Cuban Foreign Minister:
"We feel that when the UN general assembly votes in favour of this text they will be helping the efforts of north American farmers, intellectuals, much of the press, and the majority of congressmen and senators in both chambers whom have explicitly opposed the current political measures".
6. Conference room during presser
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Felipe Perez Roque, Cuban Foreign Minister:
"We have maintained cordial relations of friendship for years with (recently elected Brazilian President) Lula and the workers' party of Brazil. We wish him success in the complex task that falls upon his shoulders from this point on."
8. Wide of conference room and Perez Roque talking

STORYLINE:

Cuba launched its annual campaign on Wednesday leading up to next month's United Nations vote against US trade sanctions.

The United States has defied UN General Assembly resolutions on the subject for the past ten years.

Last year only the United States, Israel and the Marshall Islands voted in favour of keeping the sanctions.

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque gathered diplomats on Monday to the Foreign Ministry and then journalists on Wednesday to spell out Cuba's resolution calling for an end to the embargo.

The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to vote on the US trade embargo on November 12.

In Cuba's report to the UN Secretary, which was submitted 15 July, Cuba declares that the sanctions have caused more than 70 (b) billion US dollars in damages to the Caribbean island over the past four decades.

Perez Roque also welcomed to power Brazil's new president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - calling it a positive result for latin America's largest country.

Silva, 57, a farmer's son who rose to lead a labour union, won the Brazilian presidency on Sunday with 61 per cent of the vote and is to take office on 1 January.

Castro was among several heads of state to send Silva congratulatory messages.

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