Jan 14 (teleSUR) The US State Department on Tuesday removed Cuba from the spurious list of countries sponsoring terrorism, according to a statement issued by the White House.
In the document, the agency confirmed that “the United States maintains as a central objective of its policy the need to achieve greater freedom and democracy, greater respect for human rights, and greater freedom of enterprise in Cuba. To achieve these objectives, practical engagement with Cuba and the Cuban people will be necessary, going beyond what is described in the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-5) and taking into account recent developments in Cuba and the changing regional and global context.”
Accordingly, the White House announced that NSPM-5 is revoked, whereby “the Secretary of State will immediately rescind the list developed pursuant to Section 3(a)(i) of NSPM-5, and the Secretary of the Treasury will initiate a process to adjust current regulations as a result of this revocation of NSPM-5.”
At the beginning of January 2021, days before Donald Trump left the White House, Cuba was included in the list again, from which it had been removed by the Obama administration in 2015, during the period of bilateral rapprochement that took place at the end of the second term of this American politician.
Cuba was first included on the list in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan.
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