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Cuban deputy foreign minister Dagoberto Rodriguez urged Spain´s foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo to better pay attention to Spain´s domestic affairs instead of meddling in Cuba internal issues.

In response to statements by Garcia-Margallo to the Sunday edition of El Mundo newspaper, Rodriguez said that the Spanish foreign minister used disrespectful and interfering expressions related to human rights and the state of law in Cuba.

"It is not in Cuba, where the followers of Franco are. It is better that you look around," the Cuban foreign minister noted in his statements posted on the webpage of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

"We express our strongest rejection of those statements, which stand for new interference with Cuban domestic affairs," the Cuban officials pointed out as he recalled that Havana is no longer a (Spanish) colonial territory.

The Cuban deputy foreign minister said that the Spanish government should better look for a solution to the serious problems facing Spanish society, such as the economic crisis, increasing development currently affecting over 5 million people, particularly the youth.

Cuban President Raul Castro met an intense agenda during his official visit to Trinidad Tobago on Wednesday, prior to his participation, heading the Cuban delegation, at the 4th Cuba-CARICOM Summit that opens on Thursday in Port of Spain.

Raul Castro Arrived Wednesday in Trinidad and Tobago, where he was welcomed by President George Richards and Prime Minister Kamla Persard-Bissessar.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, December 7 (PL).— The Fourth Cuba-CARICOM Summit, which is set to take place next December 8 and 9, 2011, was the subject of a radio program at the Kiskeya Radio Station in Haiti.

Radio host Veronica Dorcine Michel and Cuban diplomat official Carmen Maury talked about the ties between Cuba and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). They also spoke about the summit that is going to be held in Trinidad and Tobago in the coming days.

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will be officially created on Saturday during the final session of the Summit of heads of State and Government of the region, gathered since December 2 in this capital with that purpose.

Defined by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as the future great center for regional power of the 21st century, the high-level forum will approve today the Caracas Declaration, a document that will define the political budget of a bloc for integration, development and peace.

“If it works and is successful, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) could be regarded as the greatest event of the last 200 years of semi-independence in Latin America,” said President Raul Castro on Friday upon his arrival in Caracas, Venezuela, heading the Cuban delegation that will participate in the foundational meeting of this organization.

“For the first time in history, we are going to have an organization of our Americas,” the Cuban leader added.