IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 440 
Commending Lithuania for refusing to ratify the European Union’s Political 
Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement with Cuba. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 25, 2021 
Ms. MALLIOTAKIS (for herself, Mr. GIMENEZ, and Ms. SALAZAR) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Commending Lithuania for refusing to ratify the European 
Union’s Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement 
with Cuba. 
Whereas Lithuania and the United States have a three-dec-
ade-long special relationship built on shared values, pre-
vailing trust, and a fundamental respect for democracy; 
Whereas the United States-European Union relationship is, 
as stated by the European Commission, built on ‘‘values 
of human dignity, individual rights and democratic prin-
ciples . . .’’; 
Whereas the European Union signed the Political Dialogue 
and Cooperation Agreement (PDCA) with the Govern-
ment of Cuba in 2016, ‘‘to consolidate and strengthen 
links between the parties in the areas of political dia-
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logue, cooperation and trade, on the basis of mutual re-
spect, reciprocity, common interest and respect for their 
sovereignty’’; 
Whereas the Communist Government of Cuba has mobilized 
a regime of censorship, detention, torture, and murder of 
political opponents, repression of prodemocracy efforts, 
and unparalleled restrictions on movement and emigra-
tion; 
Whereas the latest wave of repression has targeted the free 
speech, artistic San Isidro Movement, whose leader, Luis 
Manuel Otero Alca´ntara, is currently isolated and under 
police control in a hospital in Havana; 
Whereas cooperative agreements between Western states and 
the Government of Cuba legitimize corruption, political 
repression, and a segregating and suppressive economic 
system while undermining prodemocracy efforts on the 
ground in Cuba, Venezuela, and elsewhere; and 
Whereas Lithuania is the only European Union member state 
which has refused to ratify the PDCA on account of its 
demerits: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) strongly commends Lithuania for standing 
with Cuba’s human rights activists by refusing to 
ratify the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agree-
ment (PDCA); 
(2) calls on other European Union members to 
follow in the footsteps of Lithuania and annul their 
ratification of the PDCA in the course of its ongoing 
provisional implementation; 
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(3) takes pride in the special relationship 
shared by the United States and Lithuania; and 
(4) looks forward to strengthening the United 
States-Lithuania relationship on a diplomatic, mili-
tary, economic, and humanitarian basis. 
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