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Credit: Reuters/Enrique De La Osa By Jeff Franks HAVANA | Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:38pm EDT HAVANA (Reuters) - Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson said on Tuesday he felt Cuba's government did not want better ties with the United States after it refused him permission to visit a jailed American contractor whose release he was seeking. The surprise arrival of the U.S. diplomatic troubleshooter in Cuba last week had raised hopes for the possible release of Alan Gross, 62, whose imprisonment by Cuban authorities had put a freeze on relations between Havana and Washington. Gross is serving a 15-year sentence after being convicted of breaking Cuban law by bringing in Internet communications equipment under a secretive U.S. program aiming to promote political change on the communist-ruled Caribbean island. He was detained in Havana in December 2009. Richardson, a Hispanic Democrat who has acted as an informal diplomatic envoy for Democratic presidents, said he was "very disappointed" and "very surprised" at his treatment on a private visit he said was made at Cuba's invitation. "I have had positive relations with the government of Cuba for many years and they invite me and then tell me that I can't even make the humanitarian gesture of visiting (Gross) in the hospital after many other Americans have visited him," he told reporters in Havana. "My conclusion is that maybe the Cuban government has decided that it does not want better relations with the United States," he said. "Maybe that's the message they send to a friend, maybe now an ex-friend." U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has made clear that, without the release of Gross, moves to improve bilateral ties will not advance. In a roundtable interview with Hispanic journalists on Monday, Obama stressed that Richardson was acting as a private citizen on his mission to Cuba but reiterated calls for Gross's release. "We've said repeatedly that Mr. Gross should be freed. We think that the conviction of him was not based on evidence or rule of law, and also that there's a humanitarian issue here involved in Mr. Gross's decaying health," Obama said. "Anything that can be done to get Mr. Gross released, we support." Richardson, who speaks fluent Spanish, arrived in Cuba on September 7 and the following day was told by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez he could not visit Gross, who has been held in a cell in a Havana military hospital. Richardson vowed then to stay on the island until he saw Gross, as he had promised Gross' wife Judy he would do. But he abandoned his bid after seeking support from other countries, the Catholic Church and Havana-based diplomats. He said he would leave Cuba on Wednesday. "OLD HOSTILITIES" This was Richardson's second trip on Gross' behalf -- he had tried unsuccessfully to negotiate his release last year. Richardson said he felt he could no longer have a useful role in the case. Earlier this year, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter came to Cuba to press for Gross' freedom, but he too failed. Gross' family has sought his release on humanitarian grounds because his daughter and elderly mother have cancer and because he is said to be suffering from various maladies. The family has lately appealed to the Cubans to release him for the coming Jewish High Holy Days later this month. Gross's lawyer, Peter Kahn, said in a statement the Gross family was "heartbroken to learn that Gov. Richardson's efforts to reunite the family have been rebuffed by the Cuban government." "The family fears that the governor's inability to see Alan may be related to Alan's deteriorating health, as in the past others have been permitted to see Alan when visiting Cuba," he said. In his March trial, Gross told the Cuban court he was "duped" when he subcontracted for the USAID program because he did not realize the true intention of the work he was doing. He has denied his activities were a threat to the Cuban government, saying he was trying only to improve Internet connectivity for the country's small Jewish community. Cuban state prosecutors said his activities were hostile and aimed at subverting the island's socialist system. On its side, Cuba's government has long pushed for a humanitarian release of the so-called "Cuban Five" -- agents jailed in the United States since 1998 on spying charges related to Cuba's 1996 shooting down of two private U.S.-registered planes. The United States has never suggested that a swap of Gross for the five Cubans would be possible and has said Cuba has never asked for such a deal. One of the five jailed Cubans, Rene Gonzalez, is set to be freed from U.S. prison on October 7 after 13 years behind bars, but U.S. prosecutors have insisted that he serve an additional three years probation in the country. His lawyers are urging that he be allowed to return to Cuba for the probationary period. (Additional reporting by Rosa Tania Valdes; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Eric Walsh) World Mexico Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. 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