This information is reported source at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A few hours earlier, during a visit to Jamaica, President Obama himself pointed out that the State Department has been reviewing the matter, and he now awaits a final decision only on the recommendations of his closest advisers.
“Today, Cuba has little in common with that of the 80s.”
Obama has not said when he will decide but it is expected that most likely later this week to celebrate the beginning today, the two-day Summit of the Americas in Panama, where Obama for the first time to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro.
– It seems that the president will remove Cuba on the list, as long as the Cubans are asking – said an expert in. Latin America at the Council on Foreign Relations Shannon O’Neil at a briefing organized by the think tank on Thursday. In her view, the president wants to announce the decision on the sidelines of the summit, “because it would be a great step towards real change” in US-Cuba relations.
– And besides keeping Cuba on this list really would be inappropriate, because today’s Cuba has little in common with that in the ’80s was placed on the list – she said.
What is deleted from the list for Cuba?
The United States placed Cuba on the list of countries that support terrorist activities in 1982., accusing the Cuban regime Basque of supporting separatist group ETA and Colombia’s leftist FARC guerrillas. Already in the previous report, the State Department estimated that agricultural trade with Cuba “moved away”, and the country is trying to work out a peace agreement between the FARC and the Colombian government.
President Obama asked the State Department for recommendations on the removal of Cuba the list of countries that support terrorist activities on December 17 last year, announcing the return of the former, which lasted more than 50 years the isolation of Cuba.
The removal of Cuba from this list would not only have symbolic importance for the normalization of relations between the US and Cuba, Havana but allow the use of the US banking system and other forms of economic cooperation. Nevertheless imposed on Cuba embargo still wider to force – to be abolished because it is necessary consent of Congress.
Congress probably will not block Obama’s decision
If Obama will announce its decision to remove Cuba from the list, then Congress will have 45 days to block any decision. If congressmen will not do anything, it’s Obama’s decision comes into force. According to O’Neil, as well as other experts, congressmen do not block the president’s decision.
As said on Tuesday the deputy adviser to Obama’s. Ben Rhodes national security, to the summit in Panama but fails to complete the ongoing negotiations in December to resume diplomatic relations, which translate is opening embassies in Havana and Washington.
The Summits of the Americas held every three years. In this starting today in Panama president of Cuba will take part for the first time since 1962., When at the request of the US communist island was expelled from the Organization of American States (OAS). Obama will be the third such summit.
So far, the administration has not yet announced a separate, Obama’s bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit of Castro, but assured that Panama will be many opportunities to both politicians exchanged with each sentence. Will probably also for their first historic handshake.
The White House said that on the margins of the summit, Obama will also meet with representatives of the Cuban opposition and civil society.
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