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Associated PressCarter: Not in Cuba to get jailed US contractor
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ The Associated Press
March 29, 2011, 2:10PM
HAVANA — Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he has met Cuban officials and discussed the case of a U.S. government contractor who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against state security, but said he is not in Cuba to bring the man home.
Carter said he talked with Cuban officials about Alan Gross, who was arrested in December 2009 while working on a USAID-backed democracy-building project, but added, "I am not here to take him out of the country."
"We are here to visit the Cubans, the heads of government and private citizens. It is a great pleasure for us to return to Havana," the former president said in Spanish during a visit to a senior center, accompanied by his wife, Rosalynn Carter.
"I hope we can contribute to better relations between the two countries."
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