Caribbean presses Obama on Cuba
Dec 9th, 2008 | By admin | Category: News, PoliticsThe leaders of 14 Caribbean nations have called on US President-elect Barak Obama to lift the decades-old American trade embargo against Cuba.
The call came during a one-day summit between Cuba and the Caribbean regional trade bloc, known as Caricom.
Current Caricom president, Antigua’s Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, said he hoped the US embargo would finally be “relegated to history.”
The Caribbean leaders were meeting to discuss the current economic crisis.
“As we gather today in Cuba, the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America is still in place,” Mr Spencer told the gathering in Santiago de Cuba.
“The Caribbean community hopes that the transformational change which is underway in the United States will finally relegate that measure to history.”
bbc.co.uk
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