Cuba political prisoners released next – Republic

AFP

Cuban authorities released some people from the group of 53 prisoners political, as agreed in December, when the announced start of normalization of relations between the US-Cuba – gave the US State Department. Washington expects that it will soon come to the following exemptions.

Cubans’ already lowered a number of prisoners. We want to make this process was completed in the near future “- said State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki. Do not, however, specifically said how many people slowed the Cuban authorities.

reserved the while that the issue of the release of all 53 prisoners is not a prerequisite to conduct interviews on legal immigration and a possible normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba, which have to be held in January.

Psaki added that he is not able to say exactly when it comes to such talks, which the US side would be directed Secretary of State for. Western Hemisphere Roberta Jacobson. She expressed the hope that “this will happen in the coming days.”

December 17, President Barack Obama announced a shift in the current policy of isolating Cuba by the US. Recommended that the Government immediately resume broken in 1961. Diplomatic relations with the island and the relaxation of restrictions on travel and exports.

Just before the Obama administration the US announced that in exchange for the release of three US-Cuba Cuban prisoners freed very important American spy, imprisoned on the island for nearly 20 years. Cuban authorities released a 65-year-old American Alan Gross, who was detained in Cuba for five years. US maintains that Gross was not a spy.

Sources in government reports said that as part of the agreement between Washington and Havana Cuban authorities to release 53 political prisoners.

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Cuba political prisoners released next – Republic