Havana: Cuba’s lead negotiator in talks with Washington told Reuters on Friday that the island’s internal affairs would never be on the table and Havana would never move ‘one millimeter’ to placate enemies in the United States.

‘Decisions on internal matters are not negotiable and will never be put on the negotiating agenda in conversations with the United States,’ Josefina Vidal, director of US affairs for the Cuban Foreign Ministry, said in an exclusive interview.

‘Cuba will never do absolutely anything, not move one millimeter, to try to respond,’ she said after US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Havana that the US Congress was unlikely to ever lift a punishing economic embargo on Cuba unless the Communist government improved its human rights record.