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State Department recommends removing Cuba from terrorism list: Senate source
Source: Reuters
Politics | Thu Apr 9, 2015 9:55pm EDT
State Department recommends removing Cuba from terrorism list: Senate source
WASHINGTON/KINGSTON, JAMAICA | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE AND MATT SPETALNICK
(Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has recommended that President Barack Obama remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide said on Thursday.
Obama, speaking while on a short visit to Jamaica, said only that the State Department had completed its review but that he was waiting for a recommendation from his advisers and would not announce a decision on Thursday.
"State has recommended they be removed from the list," said the Senate aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Removing Cuba from the list would clear a major obstacle in the effort to restore diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana, paving the way for the reopening of embassies that have been shut for 54 years, and signal momentum in ending America's isolation from the Communist island nation.
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State Department recommends removing Cuba from terrorism list: Senate source
WASHINGTON/KINGSTON, JAMAICA | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE AND MATT SPETALNICK
(Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has recommended that President Barack Obama remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide said on Thursday.
Obama, speaking while on a short visit to Jamaica, said only that the State Department had completed its review but that he was waiting for a recommendation from his advisers and would not announce a decision on Thursday.
"State has recommended they be removed from the list," said the Senate aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Removing Cuba from the list would clear a major obstacle in the effort to restore diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana, paving the way for the reopening of embassies that have been shut for 54 years, and signal momentum in ending America's isolation from the Communist island nation.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/10/us-cuba-usa-obama-idUSKBN0N01V320150410
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