We, Cuban conscious of the need for transcendental change in the political, social and economic structures of our country, gather, beyond our diverse strategies for liberation, to affirm before our people and the international community the essential postulates that substantiate the democratic alternative to the despotism which currently prevails in our homeland.

We affirm that the Cuban nation is one, within the national territory and in diaspora. We believe that all Cubans have the right to be equal before the law and the nation, with full dignity that can not be subject to any discrimination. We likewise understand that the present regime has shown itself incapable of assuring liberty and justice and of promoting well-being and human solidarity in our homeland. Due to this, from this point forward, we establish, through a great national consensus and as a clear alternative to the current oppression, this:

Agreement for Democracy

We recognize as the fundamental principle of the new Republic that Cuba is one and independent, whose sovereignty resides in the people and functions through the effective exercise of representative multiparty democracy, which is the government of the majority with absolute respect for the minority.

All governments must respect the sovereignty of the people, therefore, at the end of the current tyrannical regime, the provisional or transition government shall be obligated to return sovereignty to the people by way of the following measures:

Guarantee the peoples participation in the decisions of the nation through the exercise of universal, direct, and secret voting to elect its representatives, and the right to seek public office.

Immediately issue a general amnesty for the liberation of all political prisoners, including those who have been sentenced for fictitious common crimes, and cancel the pending political causes against Cubans in exile, so as to facilitate their return to the homeland and their reintegration into the national society.

Organize an independent, impartial and professional judiciary.

Recognize and protect the freedom of expression, of the press, of association, of assembly, of peaceful demonstration, profession and religion.

Protect the Cuban people from arbitrary expulsion from their homes as well as against all forms of detention, search, confiscation or arbitrary aggression, and from violation of their correspondence, documents and other communications, and defend all Cubans right to privacy and honor.

Immediately legalize all political parties and other organizations and activities of civil society.

Refer to the Constitution of 1940, when applicable, during the transition period and convoke free elections with the supervision of international organizations within a time period not greater than one year, for a Constituent Congress which will establish a Constitution and which, during its existence, shall have authority to legislate as well as to oversee the executive. Having thus achieved democratic legitimacy, it shall call general elections in accordance with the provisions of theConstitution.

Recognize and protect the freedom of economic activity; the right to private property; the right to unionize, to bargain collectively and to strike; the Cuban people's right to genuine participation in their economic development; access to public health and education, and initiate the reestablishment of civic values in education.

Take immediate steps to protect Cuba's environmental security and protect and rescue the national patrimony.

Propitiate and guarantee the professionalism and political neutrality of the Armed Forces and create forces of public order whose rules of conduct shall adjust to the principles of this Agreement.

Cuba shall resurrect from its own ashes, but it is the sacred obligation of all Cubans - both within the oppressed island and in diaspora - to place our hands on the plough without looking backwards but rather into the deepest part of our hearts, to convert those ashes into fertile seeds of love and creation. Now, as 100 years ago, our national aspiration remains the construction of a Republic based on the formula of triumphant love:

WITH ALL AND FOR THE GOOD OF ALL

ORGANIZATIONS IN DIASPORA:

ACCION CIVICA CUBANA José Luis Pujol

ACCION DEMOCRATICA CUBANA Juan Carlos Acosta

AGENDA:CUBA Pedro L. Solares

ALIANZA CUBANA José Pérez Linares

ALIANZA DE JVENES CUBANOS Ana M. Carbonell

ASOCIACION INTEGRAL MAMBISA Pedro Luis Ferro

ASOCIACION DEMOCRATICA DE PROFESIONALES DEL SERVICIO EXTERIOR José R. Huerta

COORDINADORA INTERNACIONAL DE EX-PRISIONEROS POLITICOS CUBANOS Guillermo Rivas-Porta

COORDINADORA SOCIAL DEMOCRATA Dr. Lino B. Fernández

COMITÉ CUBANO PRO DERECHOS HUMANOS Dr. Ricardo Bofill

CONFERDERACIN CAMPESINA DE CUBA José M. Pou Socarrás

CUBAN AMERICAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION Andrés García

CUBA DEMOCRATIQUE Lázaro Jordana

CUBA INDEPENDIENTE Y DEMOCRATICA (CID) Húber Matos

DIRECTORIO REVOLUCIONARIO DEMOCRATICO CUBANO Juan Fndez de Castro y Orlando Gutiérrez

EX-CLUB (ASOC.DE EX-PRISIONEROS Y COMBATIENTES POLITICOS CUBANOS) Rolando Borges

EX-CONFINADOS POLITICOS DE LA UMAP Francisco García

FEDERACION SINDICAL DE PLANTAS ELÉCTRICAS, GAS Y AGUA EN EL EXILIO René L. Díaz

FREE CUBA FOUNDATION John Suárez

FRENTE NACIONAL DEL PRESIDIO POLITICO CUBANO Rufino Alvarez

GRUPO DE APOYO A LA DISIDENCIA Frank Hernández Trujillo

GRUPO DE TRABAJO DE LA DISIDENCIA INTERNA Ruth C. Montaner

HERMANOS AL RESCATE José Basulto

LIGA CIVICA MARTIANA Miguel Angel Aldana

M.A.R. POR CUBA Sylvia G. Iriondo

MOVIMIENTO DEMOCRACIA Ramón Saúl Sánchez

MUNICIPIOS DE CUBA EN EL EXILIO Roberto Pereda

MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO 30 DE NOVIEMBRE FRANK PAIS Israel Abreu Villareal

MOVIMIENTO HUMANISTA EVOLUCIONARIO CUBANO Ricardo H. Trelles

MUJER CUBANA Estela Rose

MUJERES LUCHADORAS POR LA DEMOCRACIA María MárquezORGANIZACIONES CUBANAS UNIDAS DE LA ZONA NORTE (OCU) Rafael Peguedo

PARTIDO INDEPENDENTISTA CUBANO Alberto Martínez Echenique

PARTIDO ACCION NACIONALISTA Sergio Ramos

(Representación en el exterior) PARTIDO SOCIAL DEMOCRATA CUBANO Tony Santiago

PRESIDIO POLITICO HISTORICO CUBANO - CASA DEL PRESO Luis González Infante

PUENTE DE JOVENES PROFESIONALES CUBANOS Dr. Nicolás Gutiérrez, hijo

LA ROSA BLANCA Dr. Rafael Díaz Balart

UNION LIBERAL CUBANA Carlos Alberto Montaner

ORGANIZATIONS IN THE ISLAND:

Carmelo Díaz Fernández

AGENCIA DE PRENSA SINDICAL INDEPENDIENTE DE CUBA

Gustavo Arcos Bergnes

COMITÉ CUBANO PRO DERECHOS HUMANOS

Prof. Amador Blanco

COMISION CUBANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS JOSÉ MARTI EN LA REPUBLICA DE CUBA

Jorge Omar Lorenzo Pimienta - Pedro Herrada Díaz

CONSEJO NACIONAL POR LOS DERECHOS CIVILES EN CUBA

Pedro Pablo Alvarez Ramos

CONSEJO UNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES CUBANOS

Jesús Yánez Pelletier Vocero de:

Félix A. Bonne Carcassés- René Gómez Manzano- Vladimiro Roca Antúnez - Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello

GRUPO DE TRABAJO DE LA DISIDENCIA INTERNA

Vicente Escobar Rabeiro

INSTITUTO CUBANO DE ESTUDIOS SINDICALES

William Ernesto Herrera Díaz

LIGA CIVICA MARTIANA

Luis R. Hernández Rodríguez

MOVIMIENTO ACCION DEMOCRATICA

Librado Linares

MOVIMIENTO CUBANO REFLEXION

Lázaro Rodríguez Torres

MOVIMIENTO CRISTIANO AMOR Y PAZ

Heriberto Leyva Rodriguez

MOVIMIENTO CUBANO DE JOVENES POR LA DEMOCRACIA

Berta Antunez Pernet

MOVIMIENTO NACIONAL DE RESISTENCIA CIVICA PEDRO LUIS BOITEL

Cecilia Zamora Cabrera

ORGANIZACION FEMINISTA INDEPENDIENTEAguileo Cancio Chong

PARTIDO ACCION NACIONALISTA

Rafael Ibarra Roque

PARTIDO DEMOCRATICO 30 de NOVIEMBRE FRANK PAIS

Israel Feliciano

Delegación de Villa Clara

PARTIDO PRO DERECHOS HUMANOS AFILIADO A LA FUNDACION ANDREI SAJAROV

Omar Pernet Hernández

Delegación de Villa Clara

UNION NACIONAL DE EX-PRESOS POLITICOS CUBANOS

Dr. Frank Fernández Loveira

UNION NACIONAL DE OPOSITORES