Cuban President Fidel Castro (R) receives Belgian Foreign Minister
Louis Michel at the Revolution Palace late August 23, 2001. An European
Union mission led by Michel, in an effort to improve relations soured
over EU criticism of Havana's human rights' record, met with Castro
yesterday is also planning to meet four prominent dissidents, all
opposed to Cuba's one-party communist system, at a hotel early on
Friday.

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