Special Reports
US to remove Cuba from terrorist list─── 08:43 Wed, 15 Apr 2015
Washington - President Barack Obama told Congress yesterday he intends to remove Cuba from a US list of state sponsors of terrorism, clearing the main obstacle to restoring diplomatic relations and reopening embassies shut for more than half a century.
Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro sat down at a Western Hemisphere summit in Panama on Saturday for the first meeting of its kind between US and Cuban leaders in nearly 60 years.
Cuba’s communist government had said normal relations between the two former Cold War foes would be impossible as long as it remained on the US blacklist.
Obama ordered a review of Cuba’s status after he and Castro announced a diplomatic breakthrough on Dec. 17.
Reuters
