State Dept. Reportedly Recommends Lifting Cuba's State Sponsor of Terror Status
State Dept. Reportedly Recommends Lifting Cuba's State Sponsor of Terror Status
April 10, 2015 - 1:37 PM
By Penny Starr
Reuters is reporting that an aide to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the State Department has recommended the “state sponsor of terror” status of Cuba be revoked, a move apparently timed to coincide with President Barack Obama’s attendance at a summit of Latin American countries in Panama, where he is expected to meet with Cuba’s Communist dictator Raul Castro, the brother of Fidel Castro.
“Our emphasis has been on the facts,” Obama said on Thursday in Kingston, Jamaica. “We want to make sure that given that this is a powerful tool to isolate those countries that genuinely do support terrorism, that when we make those designations we’ve got strong evidence that, in fact, that’s the case.”
“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 told Reuters on Friday.
"State has recommended they be removed from the list," said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/penny-starr/state-dept-reportedly-recommends-lifting-cubas-state-sponsor-terror-status
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