London - Britain was yesterday promised access to six nationals held incommunicado in Cuba for more than two weeks after criticising the detention by the island's Communist government as "unacceptable".
But the junior Foreign Office Minister, Mr Peter Hain, said he still doubted whether the meeting between Mr Bernard Garside, Britain's consul in Havana, and those being held would go ahead.
"Initially we thought we were going to get consular access, but that has not yet been granted. If we haven't had it by tomorrow I will be summoning the Cuban charge [d'affaires in London] to provide an explanation," he told BBC radio.