3Novices:Obama tells Congress he plans to remove Cuba from terrorism list

President Barack Obama told Congress on Tuesday that he plans to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, removing a major obstacle to restoring diplomatic relations and reopening embassies. Obama’s decision follows a hemispheric summit in Panama where Obama and Cuban President Fidel Castro sat down on Saturday for the first meeting of its kind between U.S. and Cuban leaders in nearly 60 years. Cuba’s communist government had demanded removal from the U.S. blacklist to move forward on efforts to normalise relations between the two former Cold War foes. Obama ordered a review of Cuba’s presence on the list after he and Castro announced a diplomatic breakthrough on Dec. 17.

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