Cuba praises 'fair' US pledge on terrorism list

Source: BBC News

Cuba has welcomed as "fair" a US decision to remove it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying it should never have been on the list in the first place.

The move comes amid a normalisation of ties between the US and Cuba.

The Caribbean country's presence on the list alongside Syria, Iran and Sudan was a sticking point for Cuba during talks to reopen embassies.

A US trade embargo against Cuba remains and can only be ended by Congress.

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Analysis - Thomas Sparrow, BBC Mundo, Washington

This decision is the most concrete step to date taken by the US government to try and dismantle the structures that prevented a normal relationship between both countries for decades.


Cuban President Fidel Castro (left) with US Vice-President Richard Nixon during a press reception in Washington in 1959

And it carries a lot of weight too, because it officially changes the way the US government has viewed Cuba since 1982.